Works of Interactive Fiction1982 (2014)
In this game, you play as a handsome car enthusiast but unfortunately, the Government's draconian Motor Laws and their ever gazing Eyes don't share your love of joyriding. But they're not so vigilant on Sundays, so you're going to risk taking your uncle's Barchetta for a drive in the country anyway. Let them try to stop you!
21 Points (2003)
In the small homage to Colossal Cave Adventure, you play as an adventurer. Naturally, you should TAKE all you can take, DROP all treasures in the building, and heed any magic words you discover.
2604 (2001)
You play as a spy. As "Reginald Halvers", you will be attending a New Year's Eve party in apartment 2604 where you will exchange an envelope for a prototype microchip—assuming everything goes as planned, of course.
404 - Life not found (2011)
In this very incomplete game, you're meant to be fighting zombies in a school and trying to escape, but so far, there's just one locked-up zombie and a large, sprawling campus with very little implemented in it. There's no way to win, so feel free to casually explore the place, kill that one zombie, and consider that a win.
98769765 (2003)
In this surreal game, you play as someone on a small world inside a gigantic Toys-R-Us Bag of Rusty Lead-Painted Metal Bits. You will learn that the time of the Opening is near, a time when evil can be banished from your world.
A1RL0CK (2023)
Alarms are blaring, lights are flashing, and the airlock won't open. A voice on the speaker tells you to calm down, the situation is stable, and you're two kilometers below the ocean surface. The voice cuts off abruptly. You're a child named Chloe, wearing skintight overalls. It's hard to think.
Aayela (1996)
You play as King Dargon's youngest knight, sent on a fool's errand to find the Stone of Aayela, a mythological crystal containing a spirit of light, Aayela. If the gem exists, it might cure Queen Dahra of her baffling illness and prevent the civil war that's brewing due to the king's distraction. The king has ordered you to find the Stone, hidden somewhere deep under the mountains, and you, of course, must obey.
An Abbreviated Night Before Christmas (2006)
In this very short story based on Clement Clarke Moore's poem A Visit from St. Nicholas also known as The Night Before Christmas, you play as the papa who witnesses St. Nicholas's visit to his house on Christmas Eve.
According to Cain (2022)
In this Bible-inspired game, you play as a novitiate Indagator of the Academy. The Provost orders you to discover the answer to this ancient mystery: What is the Mark of Cain? You are sent back in time to East of Eden to investigate.
Content warning: This game contains descriptions of murder, animal abuse, self-mutilation, and incest.
Acheton (1978-1980)
You play as a nameless adventurer in search of treasure. Lots of treasure. Lots and lots of treasure. So welcome to Acheton, a mostly underground land which has all the treasures, death traps, and mazes your adventuring heart desires. Yes, of course there's death traps and mazes. You didn't think this was going to be easy, did you?
Acid Rain (2021)
In this old-school-style escape game, you play as someone whose car battery dies while driving in deadly acid rain. You go to a nearby mansion for help, but soon find yourself trapped inside! You must build an electronic door opener from the scattered electronics in the house if you want to escape.
The Acorn Court (1997)
You play as someone annoyed at being placed in yet another puzzle scenario; this time, you need to escape from a court yard. This won't take long.
Ad Verbum (2000)
In this wordplay game, you play as an adventurer hired to remove everything that's not bolted down from the Wizard of Wordplay's mansion. Puzzle solving and kleptomania are useful skills for this job. Put all the debris (treasures) into the dumpster (atrophy case) to win!
The Adam and Eve Project (2017)
In this incomplete game, you play as Adam and Eve, two amnesiac people selected to participate in an experiment by an unknown third entity. The entity offers a choice: spend the rest of your lives here in this artificial Eden or see the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and leave Eden forever.
Additional Tales from Castle Balderstone (2019)
Once more, you are Ryan Veeder's invited guest to an evening of spooky storytelling at Castle Balderstone. Victor Atencio, the van Gogh of Gore, presents "Mittens". Johanna C. Quinn narrates a true story with a few details changed. It's set on an asteroid. Eddie Carlyle surprises everyone with a Dia de Muertos theme in his tale. And Allison Chase tells a story she found in a cabinet, but the author's name was her own!
Adoo's Stinky Story (2003)
In this game, you play as a university student named Adoo, back home for an extended break. But your childhood home is in danger! Your parents have put their house up for sale! To stop any possible sale, you must build a massive stink bomb! The smell will keep buyers away, but how does one build a stink bomb?
Advent Door (2019-2020)
In this small puzzle game, you play as an adventurer who's seen far too many doors recently. So, of course, now you find yourself in a study without any doors at all. They've been taken away. Can you find enough doors to escape this castle and continue your journey?
Advent Mirror (2022)
In this sequel to Advent Door, you are once again a Traveller in the City of Doors. Where has the portal taken you? Featuring a very interesting and tall mirror.
The Adventures of Bobo the Monkey (2006)
In this short game, you play as Bobo the Monkey, a chimpanzee mistakenly put into the gorilla room at the Detroit Zoo. Your goal is to make your way home to the chimpanzee room where you belong.
Aesthetic Deletions (2003)
In this shipboard game, you play as an amnesiac employee of Aesthetic Deletions. You mission is to eliminate someone on this boat. If you succeed, you'll get your name and memories back. But watch out for Jesus.
AFGNCAAP - IF Agent! Todays Adventure: Holy Goat! (2007)
In this short game, you play as AFGNCAAP, an ageless faceless gender-neutral culturally-ambiguous adventure person. A group of IF folk wake you from your bed, tell you the French from fictional Rfance have stolen the spirit of Speed IF, tell you you have to save it, put you on a plane, give you a parachute, shove you out the door... and before you know it, you're falling towards the ground in your pajamas.
Ailihphilia (2018)
In this game, a DARER AD in a GAME MAG transports you to a land based entirely on palindromes, which are words or phrases that use the same letters backwards as forwards. There, you'll need to solve many puzzles, destroy the KAOS OAK, and defeat the DIKTAT KID before you can use the TIX EXIT and leave.
The Alchemist (2022)
In this fantasy game, your friend, Ezekiel Throgmeister (or "The Alchemist" as most villagers call him), needs your help to take care of an experiment while he's away from his mansion. He had no time to give you any details, but he's confident you're clever enough to figure everything out.
Alchemist's Gold (2022)
In this game, you play as a would-be thief. You heard a rumour about an alchemist in the forest who's used alchemy to make a large stash of gold. After getting a lead on where the alchemist's house is, you decide to visit him and take some of his gold for yourself.
Alcohol solves everything (2007)
In this work, which sucks, you play as someone who wakes up in their underwear in tufty's guest bedroom. It's not at all obvious what you're expected to do, and I couldn't solve it either, but I think you're supposed to find your clothes, some alcohol, and the spirit of SpeedIF.
Possibly this work can't be completed? I honestly don't know.
Alias 'The Magpie' (2018)
In this game, you play as Sir Rodney Playfair who is secretly the notorious gentleman thief called "The Magpie". It would delight you to unburden Lord Hamcester of his extremely valuable Egyptian jewelled scarab and a chance overheard discussion has provided you with an opportunity. You shall visit Bunkham Hall disguised as the noted psychiatrist, Doctor Cornelius Drake, supposedly to treat the Lord's adled brother-in-law who is suffering from delusions.
All Quiet on the Library Front (1995)
In this game, you're a generic college student who's been slacking all semester. For your final paper on the "The History of IF Games", you need to check out a book about Graham Nelson which is somewhere in this library, but where?
Alma Mater (2006)
In this tiny game, you play as a child on Mother's Day. You've bought Mother a nice card. Now all you have to do is give it to her.
The Amazing Maze (2020)
In this very short tribute game, you play as a fan of interactive fiction. You've come to visit an attraction called The Amazing Maze created by the local IF community. Don't worry. It's not a real maze.
Amnesia (2003)
In this poorly-written game, you play as someone who washed ashore onto an island. You were supposed to have amnesia, but you don't, so the author will make up a new story where you just need to solve a few puzzles and leave the island with a treasure.
Amusement Park (2004)
In this small relaxing slice-of-life game, it's the last day of summer and a few hours before sunset. You have just found an abandoned amusement park in a nearby forest and you've decided to explore it.
Anchorhead (1998)
In this Lovecraftian game of horror, you play as the months-long wife of Michael Verlac, uprooted from Texas to New England to move into an ancestral mansion that belonged to a distant branch of Michael's family. On the first day, it's raining and you're outside the real estate office to pick up the keys, but no one answers the door. Strange. Miss Benson was going to meet you here.
And So It Goes (2004)
In this short game, you play as Failure, the literal embodiment of failure. It's your job to make people experience failure, and soon, your boss will call you, ordering you to your new assignment.
And the Waves Choke the Wind (1999–2000)
The year is 1696. You play as Ranil Kuami, a young black man who, until recently, was a sailor on the pirate ship "Dagon". Because you dared to speak out about something strange you saw in the sea, Captain Davids ordered you tied up and set adrift in a lifeboat. What did you see? What is Davids' secret? And how will you survive this?
And Then is Heard no More (2002)
In this ultra-short story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, you play as Hamlet, locked in swordfight with Laertes. Try to read the author's mind twice to reach the ending.
And yet it moves (2014)
It's 1630, outside a cottage near Florence, Italy. You play as Andrea Sarti, a former student of Galileo. Galileo is currently under house arrest for blasphemy; your first task is to check on his health.
Andromeda Awakening (2011-2012)
You play as a science researcher on the planet Monarch in the Andromeda galaxy. Your colleague, Dr. Andy Re's, was recently murdered. You intend to present Andy's findings to the Council as soon as possible, but before you can reach your destination, a horrific train accident strands you deep underground where you will make startling discoveries of your own.
The Angel Curse (2003)
In this short game, you play as a young woman in a wheelchair and feeling rather sorry for yourself. You're in the gymnasium of St. Catherine's because your friend Amy asked you to be here, but you're just not feeling it. You don't belong here. But where can you go?
Annoyed Undead (1999)
You play as a 3000-year-old vampire who wakes to discover a new church on top of your crypt. You're no longer safe here, not even in your coffin. You must escape.
Another Day, Another Sea Monster (2001)
In this very short game, you play as a child on the beach who's gotten so sunburnt, you're purple! And unfortunately for you, a sea monster called the purple people eater has been sighted nearby.
Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game (2006)
In this escape game intended to be a parody of the genre, you play as someone with amnesia who wakes up in a unfamiliar basement or bomb shelter. Your head is pounding from a massive headache. The steel door in the north wall is locked and has heavy wooden boards nailed across it to emphasize the point. How will you escape and regain your memories?
Another Terminal Beach (2011)
In this adaptation of JG Ballard's short story The Terminal Beach, you play as Traven, an emaciated man haunted by the deaths of his wife and son. Traven has made his way to Eniwetok, the island where the H-bomb was tested and which he will now slowly explore. Note that despite the bugs, instadeaths, and textdumps, this story is finishable.
Antiquest (2017)
In this odd game, you play as the captain of a space ship (or station). The story involves stasis, amnesia, robots, and mutiny, but that mostly doesn't matter. Your real objective is to replay the game over and over again until you've found all thirteen endings.
Apartment F209 (1997)
In this coding exercise written to help the author learn the Inform language, you play as a man living in a squalid apartment with a large cat that hates you. Your goals are to explore the apartment, feed the cat, find your car keys, and drive off to somewhere else.
Apocolyptica (2001)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as a street worker for the Church of Cthulu the Kitsch Collector. You can sense that something unbelievably monstrous is coming. Very soon, Life as You Know It will end unless you can prevent it.
Apollo 11 (2008)
In this re-creation of an historical event, you play as Neil Armstrong, one of the astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. The story will begin when you suit up at the Kennedy Space Center, and end when you plant the American flag in the Sea of Tranquility.
Apoptosis (2010)
In this small game, you play as a short-lived creature with the evolutionary ability to steal traits from other creatures. You have lots of competition trying to get inside, but you can do this. Use your skills to get to the front of the line, get inside, and get seats for all your friends. And don't forget to keep up your strength; all this work is exhausting. (In case you're wondering, apoptosis is a form of controlled cell death.)
The Apprentice (1993)
You play as Nyanco Clanek, the apprentice of the Wizard Boloski who tragically died two weeks ago. It is the ruling of the Wizards' Tribunal that if you wish to complete your apprenticeship, you must pass this test: escape from the Tower of Alama and return to the Tribunal.
The Apprentice (2006, 2010)
It is 1660. You play as an adventurer ordered by important people to find the Holy Grail. Good luck!
Arborea (2022)
In this arboreal/ecological themed game, you begin in a simulated vast forest generated by Program Arborea. You have a gourd with markings on it. Your goal is to retrieve the kernel, whatever that is.
Archie's Birthday - Chapter 1: Reggie's Gift (2005)
This is a pornographic text game based on characters from Archie Comics. As Reggie Mantle, you can explore Riverdale, take some tests in the high school classrooms, and spy on Betty and Veronica's steamy make-out session in the girls' shower room!
Are You A Chef? (2000)
In this unofficial sequel to Dan Shiovitz's bizarre game, You Are A Chef!, you play as someone who logs onto ifMud only to find interrogators threatening inky (Shiovitz) because of his game's extreme wackiness, and everyone else is transformed into fruits and vegetables! Are you a chef? If so, maybe you can save everyone!
Are You Too Chicken to Make a Deal? (1998)
In this tiny game loosely based on Let's Make A Deal!, you play as a game show contestant who can win a prize based on which road you cross.
Ariadne in Aeaea (2016)
In this game, you play as the wayward Ariadne of Knossos, daughter of Minos, of the royal line of Pasiphaë the Sun-Maiden, and an initiate priestess of the Isle of Aeaea. Returning to the palace after a tryst with two shepherd boys, you discover your younger sister Phaedra has been ordained a potnia before you. Potinaja wept. Phaedra then orders you to convey her respects your aunt Circe, the High Priestess, and if you do not, she'll have you assigned to be her personal handmaiden.
Armario De Auga (2001)
In this tiny one-room game set in Buenos Aires, you were gazing into the aleph, observing every detail of the world, when someone snuck up behind you and knocked you out. Now you're in a small water closet with only a mirror, toilet, and a locked door.
Art D's First Batch Adventure (1997)
In this simple limited-command-set adventure game, you play as somone walking along a sunny path. You soon find a knife, a wrapped box, and the entrance to the Cave of Thrills. It looks like the local breadstick-loving king wants to help you have an adventure!
Art D's Next Batch Adventure (1997)
In this simple limited-command-set adventure game, you continue your adventure, starting in a sunny clearing with the King's word from the last adventure. Soon you will find a solid gold torch and explore a cave.
Art D's Third Batch Adventure (1997)
In this simple game, you continue your adventure. Back outside the caves, you find a dusty old book in a meadow near a village. Follow its whimsical directions to learn what the king wants you to do next.
Arthur Yahtzee: The Curse of Hell's Cheesecake (2000)
In this comedic espionage game, you play as Agent Arthur Yahtzee of the Special Secret Service. Your mission is to stop the most evil and sadistic human in the multiverse, Doctor Diablo, from ever using Hell's Cheesecake to return to his home dimension.
Arthur's Day Out (2021)
In this small game, you play as Arthur. After a drinking binge, you wake up in the pub's broom closet with a headache. When you stumble out into the pub proper, there's no barman. There isn't anyone. What happened?
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower (2014)
In this story, you play as someone who wants to find a way into the gothic tower and get to the top. You find its architecture both graceful and severe, the most beautiful thing in this city.
ASCII and the Argonauts (2003)
In this wonderfully laconic spoof of the Scott Adams style of adventures, you play as Jason of the Argo, tasked by King Pelias to bring the Golden Fleece to him or die. Surprisingly both entertaining and tricky, this game is a gem among speed-ifs.
ASCII and the Argonauts: Astral Plane (2003)
You play as the hero, Jason of the Argo, tasked by Pelias to restore the GOLDEN FLEECE. The final guardian of the FLEECE, the Great Dragon, attacked you but thanks to Medea's magic locket, you're in the astral plane instead of Hades.
Asendent (2000)
In this short game that attempts to parody the style of author Rybread Celsius, you play as an office worker who just drank some coffee spiked with hallucinogenic drugs. You are overcome with a desire to find the BLUE RASPBERRY!
The Asian Challenge (1989)
In this educational game, you are playing as a Special Investigator for the Senate Foreign Aid Committee. Your mission is to obtain information about the Asian continent, the largest in the world. You begin your tour in Instanbul, Turkey, carrying only a compass and a scrap of paper.
Assembly (2023)
In this Ikea-inspired game, you're finishing assembling furniture for your new apartment, but the DÃLMEN table somehow transports you back to the store after hours! To escape the store and foil a sinister plot, you'll need to assemble and disassemble lots of furniture with strange names!
Assignment (2001)
In this small game, you just need to find your completed assignment for Underwater Basketweaving 101, put it in the pre-addressed envelope, and mail it.
At The Bottom Of The Garden (2000)
In this small charming game, you play as a retired homeowner trying to protect your wife Martha's prize rosebush from an increasing horde of dragons before she and her horticulturally-minded friends arrive to admire it. Fortunately, these dragons are quite small and stupid, but there's only so much that one rosebush can take!
At the Top of Your Game (2004)
In this teeny-tiny game, you play as someone newly-dead, mauled by rapid ferrets. But in the afterlife, a furry buck-toothed beast is going to give you another chance and a pink parasol.
Atrocitron (2016)
In this small abstract game, you could be anyone carrying a ticket with a randomly-chosen number. A sign above the exit door has a different randomly-chosen number. But waiting for the number to change won't work. Perhaps you should explore your environment and make a few changes?
Auden's Eden (2004)
In this very short incomplete story, you play as someone visiting W.H. Auden's idea of paradise as described in his collection of essays called The Dyer's Hand. You've arrived by hot air balloon and welcomed by a man named Hobson.
Augmented Fourth (2000)
In this Zork-like game, you play as an ill-fated trumpeter, tossed into a deep orchestra pit by King Goosen of Papoosen's guards just because he didn't like your rendition of "Ode to a Duck", the only tune you know. Escaping from the pit into a dormant volcano, you find yourself welcomed by Leonine of the Odd Community of Nolava, who promptly enchants your trumpet. Now the songs you play are magical! Can you learn enough music to escape the volcano and end King Goosen's tyranny?
Aunt Nancy's House (1997)
In this rather unrewarding exploratory work, you are playing as the author visiting his aunt's house which contains a large assortment of ordinary items, minimally described. Highlights of the tour include waiting for Windows to boot, watching a baseball game on TV, and disambiguating bathroom faucets and taps.
Aunts and Butlers (2006)
In this amusing game inspired by the works of P.J. Wodehouse, you play as the Hon. Ampersand Fodge. Although you're of the upper classes, you're also quite strapped for cash, alas. So when dear old — and rich — Aunt Cedilla comes to call, you'd best be on your extra-top form.
"Butler?" No, you don't have a butler, never had a butler, and never intend to have a butler. Why do you ask?
Aura-Scope (1992)
In this huge game, you play as a mortal tasked with finding the twelve signs of the Zodiac and bringing them to Hub, the Celestial Wheelwright, so he can forge a new Wheel. Your search will take you all over the heavens where you'll meet not only numerous incarnations of the constellations but also the planetary gods themselves!
Authority - Life in a Central Government Authority (2005)
You play as Arvid Falk, an observer assigned to a special project at The National Board of Sustainable Development (NBSD). Your workplace will be The Unit in The Department. Your task will be "to analyse how authorities can meet the challenge of sustainable development by putting people at the centre and turning examples of good practice into established common practice, to achieve a better quality of life for all."
Awake (2018)
In this incomplete story, you play as Dr. William, lead scientist, research division for the Project at The Company. The phone wakes you and Sarah at 2:55 am; Deputy Joyce needs you, but not Sarah (who also works for the Project), to come in ASAP. When you arrive, the Deputy tells you three of his men are dead and to get your act together. You walk to Anna's room.
Awakening (2009)
You play as someone who has just woken up mud-covered and filthy beside a deep hole in a church graveyard and in the middle of a thunderstorm. You feel restless. You feel inexplicably drawn to the church. And you're thirsty. You need a drink badly.
The Awakening (1998)
You play as someone who wakes up in a muddy hole in a church graveyard during a thunderstorm. You won't look at yourself; you're afraid what you might see. The church is decrepit yet guarded by a guard dog. You feel unable to leave the area. Why?
The Awakening (2010)
In this short "prologue to the Saturn Chronicles", you play as a luckless working guy having an unusually bad Monday. First, your car was stolen, then you.
Babel (1997)
In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by touching various glowing items. But can you discover who you are, what happened to the station, and then how to escape from Babel?
baby tree (2012)
This short minimalist surreal horror piece begins with a verse from PLACEBO's "Song to say goodbye". You play as a woman in bed with a knife. You can't sleep. A boil on your throat hurts too much.
Badland Machine (2003)
In this tiny game set in the steampunk fantasy western genre, you play as a dew fairy—a dew fairy in leathers with a motorbike. You're tired and in an incredibly bad mood. You have a delivery to make in the town of Machine.
Baggage (2021)
In this short game about introspection, you play as someone walking along a long gravel road bordered by hedges. You don't seem to be getting anywhere. Your satchel contains a hope, a belief, a regret, a memory, a fear, and a resentment.
Baking with Lizzie (2017)
In this small one-room game, you play as a domestic raccoon named Lizzie. You want to bake some cookies for your friends before they arrive, but first you need to find the recipe card.
Balances (1994, 1995, 1996)
In this example game set in the world of Zork, you play as the enchanter protagonist of the Enchanter Trilogy. You don't remember how you arrived in this ramshackle hut, but it has something to do with Helistar and how the world is off balance because of the Great Change.
Balder's Death (2011)
This is a simple and clumsy retelling of the Norse myth about how the god Balder died. The sole interesting feature of this retelling is that, depending on your choices, you may be playing as the blind god Hod, or as the trickster god Loki, or as Balder himself.
Ballymun Adventure (2006)
In this game, you play as a new male student at the school. As an orientation exercise, Mr Byrne, the principal, has organized a small competition. The winner will be the first student to bring four specific items from all over the building back to his office. You begin in the assembly hall.
Baluthar (2003)
In this game of horror, you play as an old man of a tribal culture. For months, you've been weary of life and kept to your bed. But when you learn that your adult son, Rykhard, has foolishly gone into the cursed cave in the well, you are finally motivated to act. You lost his mother. You will not lose him too.
Banana Apocalypse and the Rocket Pants of Destiny (2001)
You play as Grisham, an employee of "Rockets, Sprockets, and Pants" and you have a big date planned tonight with your favorite superhero, EnigmaGirl. But how are you going to get your pride and your prototype rocket pants out of the factory with MonkeyMan Shatner breathing down your neck?
Barton (2001)
You play as Barton, an office worker who is also a dog. Your boss orders you to bring Shatner to the studio, pronto!
Basilica de Sangre (2018)
In this game, you play as Ilemauzer of the Pit, a level 2 succubus from Tartarus. Your mom hasn't returned from the Basilica de Sangre and no demon dares try to rescue her — except you. Disguised as a nun, you arrive at the isolated Basilica by boat, but your disguise won't keep you safe for long. You should possess someone else's body as soon as possible.
Basket of Destiny (2001)
You play as someone who thinks their life sucks, but you have a plan. You're going to become a world-famous underwater basketweaver and appear on the hit TV show "When Bankers Attack Antique Roadshows" and it's all going to happen today.
Battle of the Planets (2001)
In this teeny-tiny surreal game, you play as someone who was in New Orleans but now on Jupiter's moon Io for reasons you've currently forgotten. An Ioan yak and your old friend, Aluminum Hamster, are nearby.
The Bean Stalker (2018)
In this short political satire based on the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk, you play as a downtrodden farmer with moxie. Times have been tough for you, your mom, and your farm ever since the magical wall was erected around the kingdom. Now it's time to sell your final cow, good old Bessy.
Bears, Bears, Bears (2001)
You play as an employee of "Sprockets, Rockets, and Pants" and it's time to go home, but leaving the building isn't going to be easy.
Beat the Devil (1999)
You are some guy who, after a night of drinking and proclaiming that you'd sell your soul for a chance with the lovely Gwyneth, wakes up in a literal "Mall of Hell". It seems Lucifer overheard you and although he doesn't want your soul, he will give you your chance with the lovely Gwyneth if you can defeat all seven deadly sins all of whom can be found somewhere in the mall.
A Beauty Cold and Austere (2017)
In this puzzle-filled game, you play as a college or university student who skipped most of their classes in conceptual mathematics. Your final exam is tomorrow! But it's late and you're tired and cramming never worked for you, so... you're going to eat one of your roommate's weird blorple pills and explore your math book's mystic energy field in your dreams.
Because you're mine (2016)
You play as a Horse, the dominant species on this planet. Your lover was unfaithful, so you plan to use a Rootwork ritual to ensnare him to you forever. Most of the ingredients you'll need are in the swamp north of Creola.
Beet the Devil (2011)
You play as a church gardener who is awoken before dawn by an unholy racket. Your garden has been ravaged and your bird dog has been dognapped! So with the aid of a small puppy and several vegetables, you will confront the demons of Hell itself, rescue your bird dog, and Beet the Devil!
A Beginning (2004)
In this very short story based on the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden, you play as someone enjoying the newly-created land. You also find your growing belly particularly wonderful.
Behavior (1998)
You play as a graduate student at Harvard University. You need to complete your thesis on the nocturnal performance of chickens, but because of your own nocturnal performance, you fell asleep in the lab and your test subject is now on the ledge outside the lab window.
Behold! (2001)
In this tiny game, you play as someone backstage at the XYZZY Awards ceremony. Eileen has sent you to bring out the celebrity presenter, Stephen Bishop, but he's been turned into a basket of mangoes! You need to find out who did this and change him back, if you can.
Being the Ending of the Beginning (2011)
In this small surreal game set in a shopping center, you play as someone named Leslie. It begins with you in a tanning bed wearing your mum's shoes and nothing else. Expect to find several odd items and deal with two evil adversaries before this day is over.
Being the Little Guy (2003)
In this short game, you play as a humble farmer boy who lives in an enchanted glade with your friend, Patty the Unicorn. Unfortunately, Patty tells you that the evil and cruel Ogre Lord has another quest for you.
Bellclap (2004)
You play as a god, directing one of your worshippers, a man named Bellclap who is stranded at one of your mountain temples without sufficient food and in the middle of a severe thunderstorm. You must guide Bellclap so he can continue his journey.
Beneath: a Transformation (2007)
In this Lovecraftian game inspired by the works of Robert E. Howard, you play as a poor resident of the rundown town of Stregoicavar. You want to continue reading your borrowed library book, Worms of the Earth, but the library's now closed, the sun is going down, and you have no more working light bulbs at home.
Berrost's Challenge (2008)
Berrost has finally decided you should learn some spells, but he's also evicting you from his tower. So, as a test of your wit, you're to search the village for five hidden scrolls containing your new spells. Berrost will be watching your progress from his scrying room.
Best Gopher Ever (2018)
In this charming game, Alfred P. Owl, the mayor of Fairview, greets you and begs you to help all the anthropomorphic animals in town with all their very serious problems. Of course, you'll help them. You're the best gopher ever.
Note that this game uses a very limited set of commands and you won't ever need to EXAMINE anything.
Best Laid Plans (2013)
In this small introductory game, you play as a biotech researcher at the Merrowvale Institute (MI) in the twin cities of Bizan'Toll. You were living the good life until a rival company attacked the facility, killed your co-worker and imprisoned you in a cell. You need to escape with SADI, a wristwatch-like device that can absorb other things.
A Bet's a Bet (2004)
In this incomplete game, you play as a man who normally works in the finance department, but tonight, you're dressed as Santa Claus and you're on a roof with his reindeer. Somehow you lost a bet to Santa and now you must pretend to be him and deliver Christmas presents to this one house. How difficult can that be?
Beyond the Blue Event Wall (2003)
In this tiny game, you play as a dashing hero with a sword in a damp corridor infested with badgers. Go find something heroic to do, hero.
Beyond the Tesseract (1983-1986)
You have reached the final part of your mission. You have gained access to the complex, and all but the last procedure has been performed. Now comes a time of waiting, in which you must search for the hidden 12-word message that will aid you at the final step. But what choice will you make when that time comes?
The Bible Retold: The Bread and the Fishes (2006)
In this Biblical tale, you play as Jesus. A crowd of five thousand people have gathered in a field outside the town of Bethsaida to hear you preach, but they're all very hungry. It would take a miracle to feed this many people, but since you're the son of God, you might find a way to do that. But how, exactly?
The Bibliophile (2014)
In this game, you play as Mr. Troy Albert Higgins, a humble bookstore owner in Baltimore's Mount Vernon district. Your quiet life is interrupted by the discovery of an obscure Italian libretto, which you'll eventually learn is key to summoning a cosmic horror that will destroy the world. To prevent this summoning, you find yourself drafted to be the reluctant hero of this story, even learning a few spells to help you succeed.
Bio (2003)
In this game, you play as a male live-in janitor for a scientific research facility in a Brazilian jungle. Tonight, the scientists are away at a convention and you're enjoying the peace and quiet. Unfortunately, your rest is disturbed by a loud bang, and then the intercom announces an atmospheric disturbance and a lockdown. That can't be good!
Birmingham IV (2018)
In this old-school adventure, you play as the Phil, an English natural philosopher whose dreams have taken him to a fantasy version of his cottage in the West Midlands. Recognizing you as a problem solver, the Parson asks you (via a note) to find his missing Sexton and to put the addled Sir Lawrence to rights. Well. Best get to that. Who knows what you might find along the way?
Birth of Mind (2011)
In this very short story inspired by both Norse legends and Jack and the Beanstalk, you play as a little god named Jack. You want to find an ice giant who can tell you how to start Ragnarok.
Biscuit (1996, 2001)
In this game, it's your responsibility to arrange the funeral of the family's pet rabbit, Biscuit. You'll need a poem from your friend Peter to read, and your son Joe insists that the burial takes place in the back garden.
Blackness (2013)
In this short horror game, you play as a hospital janitor. You just need to mop a couple floors and then you can go home. Assuming the blackness doesn't get you first.
The Blair Bee Project (2000)
In this short parody of The Blair Witch Project, you play as one of a trio of young campers. A wizened old man warns you of dangerous black and orange creatures that lurk in the woods, but the three of you ignore his warnings.
Bloodless on the Orient Express (2011)
In this short game, you play as a gentleman vampire traveling to Paris via the Orient Express. You emerge from your coffin and soon learn that the train is stuck in a snow drift and behind schedule. Although help is on the way, your deep thirst can't wait. You must drink blood as soon as possible.
The Bloody Mess (1999)
In this small game, you play as someone locked in the hold of an oil tanker. You have a credit card and there's a newspaper nearby.
Blorp! (2023)
In this small game, you're the owner of an underwater brewery, and you're just back from vacation. Having a brewery underwater has been a great sales gimmick, but Dave's sent you a cryptic messsage that something's gone wrong, so now you need to clean up whatever mess he's left for you.
Blue (2011)
In this dystopian game, humanity is being destroyed by parasites that infest people's brains before transforming their hosts into horrifying creatures. But you have a plan to save yourself... or her.
Blue Head Yurt (1999)
In this very small game, you play as someone intrigued by the Blue Head Yurt, a primitive rock dwelling that contains a startling stone sculpture of a head. It seems made from a sandstone-like rock, but it glows a dull blue.
The Blue Lettuce (2021)
In this short fantasy, you play as a groundhog in a wizard's garden. There's lots of tasty magical plants you want to eat today, but the blue lettuce is the tastiest!
Blue Sky (2004)
You play as a tourist in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You've overslept your first morning here and your tour group has already left the hotel without you. You'd better hurry up and find them!
Bobby and Bonnie (2017)
In this lighthearted game, you play as Bobby and Bonnie, two anthropomorphic rabbit children who live in a crystal palace. You will first need to finish your chores before heading out to visit your grandmother and the county fair. And if you can find your friend, Puff, you may be able to make something special for dinner!
The Body (2003)
In this rather linear game loosely based on the Stephen King novella The Body, you play as a kid named Gordie Lachance. One of your friends found out about a dead body by the tracks outside of town, so a group of you are heading out to go see it.
The Bony King of Nowhere (2017)
In this game, you play as a Northerner living a quiet life in your hovel with your faithful dog, Dylan. When you step outside, a foul-mouthed pigeon drops a letter at your feet, but when you look at it, you learn to your dismay that it's addressed to the Bony King of Nowhere who lives far to the south, and that you must now deliver the letter personally to the King or be executed. Well that's just perfect.
Bored Ladders (2011)
You are a respected member of your people. They have given you and Kevin a mission. Find the Tomb of the Unknown Tool and find the artifact that will defeat the evil Braintree, the oldest enemy of your people.
A Boy and his Goat (1998)
In this very short sparse story, you play as a peasant boy carrying a legless goat to market. From this story, a moral may be wrought.
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (2015)
You play as Bonnie Noodleman, a normal teen-ager in 1959's Canyonville, New Mexico. You're on a nice normal date on Make-Out Mountain when aliens from beyond guzzle out your boyfriend's brains! Jeepers! You've got to do something about this menace, but everyone's busy with the Pine Nut Days festival and won't take your warnings about brain guzzlers seriously!
Brain of the Night Guest (2011)
You play as Alex, a student into pharmaceuticals. You passed out during a tour of the Plutonian Commonwealth museum, and now a maintenance bot is telling you the museum's closed and it'll take you to the police in the morning. The bot shuts itself off and you decide you need to find a way out of here.
The Bright Blue Ball (2022)
In this small game, you play as a dog named Max. You lost your bright blue ball while the humans were panicking. Did you see a little girl pick it up? In the shelter, you think about your blue ball. You want it back.
The Brough of Birsay (2007)
During a family trip to Scotland, you and your kid brother Tommy are visiting the ruins at the Brough of Birsay, but while listening to the tour guide at the entrance, you notice that Tommy has wandered off ahead. You need to go find him.
The Bryant Collection (2009)
In 2008, the author bought a strongbox at a yard sale. The box contained handwritten descriptions of storyworlds by Laura Bryant, a woman who somehow invented interactive fiction without ever using a computer. Fascinated, the author has transcribed five of these stories to Inform so you can explore and enjoy them as well. The stories are called "The End of the World", "Morning in the Garden", "The Tower of Hanoi", "Going Home Again", and "Undelivered Love Letter".
BSE (1996)
In this British absurdist game, you play as Agent 667, an environmental health inspector sent to investigate a possible epidemic risk of BSE in the isolated village of Skebdale. Agent 398 also reports widespread devil worship in the area, which may be linked and should also be investigated.
Buccaneer's Cache (2021)
In this small game, you wake up in a pub's broom closet. If you can survive getting past the beast in the pub, try to find the three geocaches hidden around town and make your fortune!
Bugged (2001)
The conceit of this game is that your cousin has written a very buggy IF game that you are determined to play through to the end. Can you take advantage of the bugs in the game to get around the other bugs that are blocking your progress?
Bullhockey! (2018)
In this game, you play as a guy recently dumped by his girlfriend Natalie. In order to recover your sanity, you must find all of your business clothes that she's uncharacteristically scattered out and about town.
Bullhockey 2: The Return of The Leather Whip (2019)
In this large game, it's Saturday morning. You play as a guy waking up to the sounds and smells of breakfast that your wonderful girlfriend is making downstairs. But when you reach the kitchen, Natalie isn't there. Or anywhere in the apartment. You soon learn that your evil ex-landlady, Mabel, who knows magic, has escaped from prison. She must've kidnapped Natalie again! But where are they now?
Buried in Shoes (2008)
In this surreal yet serious story based on a historical event, you play as a child experiencing several events relating to shoes. (To say much more would be a spoiler.)
Burnt Toast (2000)
In this very tiny game, you wake to the smell of burnt toast. You better go down to your kitchen and find out what's wrong.
Bus station (2009)
In this short story, you are waiting at the bus station for the last bus to Montreal to visit your parents. But there's a blizzard outside and you don't have your ticket or any money. Three possible endings.
By the Lake (2015)
You play as Alexa, the ghost of your former self who was killed—in the game's prologue—by your now ex-boyfriend, Paul. You want revenge.
The Cabal (2004)
In this satire, you play as a young American man who loves old puzzle-based IF. You are also racist, sexist, and prone to believe in conspiracies. While playing Infidel, you learn that a secret society called the Cabal is behind the trend to make IF more story-based and a lot less fun. Learn who's in the Cabal and stop their evil schemes!
Cacophony (2009)
In this very surreal game, it's not at all clear who or where you are. You feel incomplete and the world seems unreal and mutable. Eventually, you will learn of a mission to complete. But will you carry out your orders or try to escape this situation entirely?
Camping! (1999)
In this teeny-tiny joke game, you play as someone going camping. Just grab your backpack and go!
Campus Invaders (2022)
In this game, you're visiting the Vigamus Academy to learn more about the game design course taught by Professor Mark M. Etal. But as you arrive, aliens from space invade the campus! The gate will keep them out of the building for a while, but only you can save the campus.
Can You Escape (2013)
In this tepid, unpolished, minimalistic challenge, you have decided to escape from the haunted house. Some creatures in the house are helpful, but most are not. Find the right path through the house to win. Easy.
Cana According To Micah (2011)
In this Biblical story, you play as Micah, a servant to Clopas's family. Clopas just got married, but a crisis has arisen during the after-party: you've run out of wine! While the other servants rush off to the market, your task is to find the wine jug that's gone missing.
NOTE: The story of Jesus turning water into wine at the marriage at Cana is told in the Gospel of John.
Candy (1997)
In this incomplete, surreal, and short game, you play as a child dropped off at your Aunt Lidia's house. Fortunately for you, Auntie's taking her beauty sleep, leaving you free to find and eat all the candy you can.
Captain Cutter's Treasure (2021)
In this game, you play as Jim, a tavern worker who wakes up in the broom closet. You soon learn that, years ago, the pirate captain, Cutter, had his former crewmates (including your boss, Harold) hide a treasure for him, and now he wants it back. Return the treasure by sunset or else Harold's daughter, Brenda, will suffer the consequences.
Captain Piedaterre's Blunders (2017)
In this short and amusing choice-based parody of Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, you play as Captain Piedaterre, a sea-faring rat who, after crashing his ship on a reef, lucks out by finding a pirate's house to plunder. Oh, what treasures will soon be yours!
Captain Speedo, The New Generation, Series Premiere: Missed by a hair - but not forgotten! (2001)
In this short game, you play as Erik Starson, a young boy who idolizes Captain Speedo, the famous galactic hero from yesteryear. Erik and a magnetic comb will play pivotal roles in engineering Captain Speedo's eventual return.
Captivity (2020)
In this game, you play as a well-born young woman kidnapped by the lecherous Duke Esteban to be ravished. Your parents cannot pay the ransom and the one man sent to rescue you has failed. If you want to escape from the duke's castle with your virtue intact, you'll have to manage it yourself.
Capture Santa! (2007)
In this strange little game, it's the night before Christmas Eve, and you hate that Santa keeps breaking into your home every year to leave a present. You're gonna set some traps and capture that fat man once and for all. But first, you need to get out of helping your friend Matt decorate the clubhouse for a Christmas party.
Cargo Breach (2023)
In this game set during World War I, you play as a British sailor aboard the SS Cuttlefish. As you slept, a cargo breach of chlorine gas killed everyone else on board, and the ship is adrift. Find your gas mask, save yourself, and prevent the gas from killing anyone else.
Carnival (1999)
You play as someone visiting the carnival. You've had a great day, but you haven't won a prize yet.
Carpathian Vampire (2022)
In this horror game, you play as Franz, a vampire hunter, hired by Romanian villagers who believe a recently deceased count is now a strigoi who has been killing their children. You begin outside the former Count's castle.
The Carthage Corn Maze (2001)
In this minimalist game, you and your dog Granta have come to Carthage on vacation to visit a prize-filled corn maze. Inside the maze, you'll both be questing to find a Magic Pumpkin. Meanwhile, Voodoo Pimp Daddy wants the gold key as his prize.
The Case of LeAnne's Missing Bunny, Wendy (2015)
You play as Sheridan Mitchell. You need to rescue the rabbit, Wendy, from the Murder House and return her to her owner, LeAnne.
Casino Viridoso V (2003)
In this very short game, you play as someone playing slots at the casino. Then the famous actor Harry Q. Suppertime IV walks in, a smiling dame on his arm. They're celebrating their five-week anniversary. "Faaabulous!"
Castaway (1986)
In this introductory game, you start adrift in the Coral Sea near a deserted island. You were the first mate of a cargo ship until it sank, but now you're a castaway. You have two goals: get rescued and find as much treasure as you can before you go.
Castle of the Red Prince (2013)
In this short game, you are a student of the arcane who's been having nightmares. As you dreamwalk, you see the land of Amaranth, the tyrant prince who rules it, and the growing corruption that surrounds him like a malignant aura. You finally understand. The Red Prince must die.
The Castle of Vourtram (2017)
In this game, in the hidden city of Chuma Huppic in the Kingdom of Gwalinad, you play as an orphan destined to defeat the evil wizard Vourtram who has captured the Princess Grardobeth and demands the king's abdication. First choose a guild and train as a warrior, a mage, or a thief. Then you must leave the city, rescue the princess, and destroy the evil of the Castle of Vourtram.
Catch That Haggis!, Or, Working Around the Restrictions (2001)
In this small silly game, you play as a green tentacled alien. You and Xurg need to pick up an indigenous lifeform from the Scottish Highlands to take home.
Catventure (2019)
In this small silly game, you are a housecat bored with life in the village of Nafurville. You plan to seek your fortune in Chipawgo, which is far more exciting. But how to get there?
Causality (2003)
You play as someone who hops around the space-time continuum, witnessing or interfering with human history. Sometimes you witness destruction. Sometimes the destruction is caused by your own hands. Are you an agent of a higher power? And what effects will your actions cause?
The Cenric Family Curse (2013)
In this light horror game, you play as a cursed nobleman named Robert Cenric IV, cursed because of your father's greed. Unless you can find a way to break the curse in the next two hours, you'll be damned forever.
Channel Surfing (2008)
You play as someone who's supposedly consented to test an experimental television, but you don't really remember anything about your prior life. The "box" you wake up in has nothing in it except the television, a table and chair, a remote control, a letter, a post-it note, and you. Ready to do some channel surfing?
Chaos (1999)
In this game, you direct the actions of the evil Captain Chaos, a young villian whose specialty is building robots and who is currently sleeping in his massive floating airship above San City. In five minutes, the ship will clip a tree, lose power, and start to crash unless you can help him fix everything.
Charming (2018)
In this game, you play as a young witch practicing for her coming of age test in the Pentacle Chamber. Unfortunately, your ventus spell became a tornado and smashed up most of the room! How can you, the worst witch in West Witchington, fix the mess — and learn the required spells for the test — before midnight?
Cheater (1996)
You play as an unnamed adventurer in the year 2753. As part of a galaxy-wide contest, your goal is to acquire the Toaster of Battle Creek Michigan, the last functioning toaster in the known universe, before anyone else.
A Checkered Haunting (2016)
In this pure puzzle game, you play as a ghost given a rare opportunity to move up in the Otherworld. All you have to do is haunt five suburbs, each laid out in a 5×5 grid, by visiting every location exactly once without crossing your path and without running past the suburb's church.
Cheer Up (2003)
You play as a fish in the deep blue sea. You were lucky when you escaped that shark, but unlucky when you were caught in a net afterwards. Are you lucky or clever enough to escape from a fish and chips shop?
Cheesed Off! (2016)
In this silly game, you play as Ryan Veeder, world's greatest detective. You've been summoned by Chief Cheddar to the Delaware Museum of Cheese. He tells you that the Punster, your arch-nemesis, has "set up a collection of pungent punny puzzles in the museum, and if you don't solve them all, the entire place will explode and send de Brie everywhere!"
Chicken! (1998)
In this minimalist one-room game described as "A Journey in Three Clucks", you and a chicken are standing beside a busy road to the north and a desert in all other directions.
Chicken and Egg (1998)
In this one-room "potboiler", you play as a captured spy strapped into an interrogation chair, a setting borrowed from Spider and Webb. You've already told your interrogator almost everything, including how you recaptured the defector inside the enemy facility. Soon, your career as a spy will be at an end.
The Chicken Under the Window (1998)
"The Chicken Under the Window" draws its literary background from Andrew Plotkin's excellent, "The Space Under the Window," which you should go and play. You don't 'play' it like you would a normal text adventure game; instead, you type in words that you see in the text, and see what happens. Eventually, you'll have produced a full 'story'.
The Chicken's Dilemma (1998)
In this one-puzzle one-room game, you play as a newly-dead chicken, killed when you tried to re-cross a road. Now you're floating in a black void facing a logic puzzle posed by a sign and a choice of four doors, only one of which leads to heaven.
Chickens of Distinction (1998)
You play as a minimum-wage employee, standing outside the Chunky Chicken Poultry Palace in a chicken suit. There's gotta be a better way to make a living, right?
The Chinese Room (2007)
In this playful surreal puzzler about philosophy, you play as a university student who, after a night of drinking, wakes up in a literal representation of The Chinese Room thought experiment. Outside the room, more philosophical concepts are manifest. Solve all the problems to learn where you are and why you're there.
Chipmonk (2019)
In this small simple adventure, you play as a monk named Chip, equipped with your trusty katana. Your quest is to kill the dragon known as The Destroyer. You begin in the cave entrance.
Chlorophyll (2015)
You play as Zo, a normal Xyloid (plant) girl at that awkward stage of metamorphosis. You and your mom recently arrived on T-848 and now you're heading in a Planet Roller to your new home at Olobo station under a harsh black sky. You're almost there when all the power suddenly dies—in both the car and in your solar vests! Your mother succumbs to torpor immediately, but you manage to reach the station's sunlock in time. Now what?
A Christmas Game (2016)
In this game, you play as a homeowner on Christmas Eve. Although you have no money, you need to find the seven items on your shopping list and bring them home to have a Merry Christmas. Featuring Santa, Jon Pigeon, and Ebenezer Scrooge.
A Christmas Game: The Sequel (2017)
In this game, you again play as a homeowner on Christmas Eve. Although you have no money, you need to find the seven items on your shopping list and bring them home to have a Merry Christmas. Featuring Santa, Jon Pigeon, Gabriel, and the Three Wise Mice.
A Christmas Quest (2020)
In this small game set at the North Pole, you play as Yitshak the Elf on Christmas Eve. Santa is already flying around the world, delivering presents, but he's missing one. Find the missing present and bring it to Santa.
Chronicle Play Torn (2004)
In this fantasy quest, your granduncle, the occultist Jumon Hakai, has disappeared. Searching his mansion for clues, you learn he was plagued by a visitor from Nexus Eden, another world whose portal is a pool in the cellar. Jumon entered that portal to find help, and now you must follow him.
The Chronicler (2010)
In this sci-fi game featuring time-travel puzzles, you play as an investigator, sent to find out why this research colony stopped communicating with the rest of humanity. Your ship rests to the south. The complex is inside the mountain to the north.
The Circus of Sadness (2002)
In this very short story, you play as a wheelchair-bound clown. But after the head clown verbally abuses you, do you really want to stay at this circus? Perhaps there's somewhere else you could go.
Citizen of Nowhere (2019)
In this odd, whimsical, and bittersweet game, you play as a young man who rejected the crown after your father, the Bony King of Nowhere, died. You moved to the far north and live a quiet life. Your pet dog, Dylan, is always by your side. But today, the Prime Minister has invited you to a garden party at the old castle. You wonder what mischief you'll get up to this time.
City of Dead Leaves (2016)
In this short story, you play as the outsider, the one who left. You have returned here, hoping to find your lost love and reconcile with him.
Civil Mimic (2017)
In this very small wordplay game based on Roman numerals, you play as a high school student named Mimi having a bizarre Halloween candy dream. You had a dumb argument a month ago with your friend, and now someone called the Civil Mimic wants to know her name. Perhaps this lid which is actually a clock in Roman numerals can help you say it?
Civil Seeming Drivel Dreaming (2022)
You overdosed on candy and now you're dreaming somewhere very strange. This is a small wordplay game where everything is based on alliterative phrases that rhyme with other alliterative phrases: the names of places and things. Change your enrivonment, defeat foes, and explore until this drivel dreaming ends.
Class Challenge (2019)
In this very small game, you play as a student at the Marsh Academy. Your English teacher wants you to write an essay about interactive fiction for your detention. You prefer to escape it.
A Clean Getaway (2023)
In this small escape game, you play as a PhD student and research scientist in an exciting new field. While working late after midnight in the clean room, you notice you're alone, which should be impossible. It's time to go home, but leaving will prove to be more difficult than usual.
Clusterflux (2019)
In this game, you play as Zeddy Maddox, a guy who lives in a third floor apartment; the building was a well-to-do family house in 1920's. Lately, there have been strange shakings and noises. The guys on the second floor vanished. And your talking pet mongoose, Gef, who showed up mysteriously a few weeks ago, can't explain why a woman you've never met is now sleeping on your couch.
The Coast House (2001)
You play as a nondescript person. Ten years ago, your grandmother died. Two years ago, your grandfather told you secretively that your grandmother left something for you in their old house in Dalton, Texas. Now is your chance to find out what he meant.
Code Name Silver Steel (2017)
This is a short espionage game. Your freelance spy mission is to "Infiltrate MegaCorp, gain access to the data centre, download the database." You begin in MegaCorp's foyer, disguised as a repairman.
Coffee Quest II: A Day At The Office (2002)
In this very silly game, you play as a bored office worker who just wants a decent coffee. Go find it.
Coffins (1998)
In this brief tale inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, you play as a mortician. Two nights ago, you murdered your wife, Ligeia, so you could marry your mistress, Rowena. Now you and Rowena stand in front of Ligeia's coffin.
Coke Is It! (1999)
In this amusing and loving tribute to both Coca-Cola and interactive fiction, you will re-visit six classic games (Adventure, A Bear's Night Out, Curses, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Losing Your Grip, and Planetfall), each re-imagined with refreshing Coca-Cola in very prominent product placements.
Cold Iron (2011)
In this small game, you play as a farmer. It's now time to chop the wood, but your good axe is missing. The piskeys must have stolen it. Better take Reverd Pearson's book of tales with you when you go piskey-hunting. You can't explain why you need the book, but you know it's true.
Color and Number (2002)
You are a self-employed cult investigator called in by the police to investigate a local temple, the scene of a mass cult suicide. The police have already cleaned out the place, but the cult's leader and funds are missing. Can you find what the police missed?
Color of Milk Coffee (2012)
In this extremely short story, you play as someone sitting on a balcony, drinking milk coffee, and waiting. You don't know what you're waiting for, but you're certain that if you wait long enough, something will change and you'll know it.
The Colour Pink (2005)
In this game, you are a spaceman sent to investigate an out-of-contact colony on an abandoned planet. Your mission is to find out what happened to the scientists and report back to the Captain. But what do you do when the world turns pink and your communicator stops working?
The Coming of the Mirthful Messiahs (2011)
In this silly work designed to showcase a perceived flaw in Inform's world modeling, you play as the Chosen One who must juggle the Three Sacred Objects of Mystery to summon the Mirthful Messiahs in order to unleash the Vast Honk. The problem: the most you can carry is two items.
Coming Out of the Closet (1998)
In this one-room puzzle game, you play as someone somehow trapped in a closet. The door isn't locked and you have no trouble opening it, but something stops you from leaving.
Note: Despite the title, this game has nothing to do with homosexuality, not even metaphorically.
Common Ground (1999)
In this story, you play as three different characters—a teenage girl planning to run away from home, her stepdad, and her mom—experiencing the events of the same evening from their own perspectives. Although their viewpoints differ, they do share some common ground.
Comp00ter Game (2000)
In this tiny pointless, buggy, and incomplete game, you play as a naked man wandering in four abstract rooms looking for something to do while the author regales you with his hideous prose and insulting banter. It's really bad and there's no way to win.
Compliance (2012)
In this espionage game intro, you play as Reg, an employee of the Company. She warned you. She begged you to leave. She's missing. Now you're looking for a file in the sub-basement that can help you.
The Computer Lady (2019)
In this small very easy game, you play as a novice writer of interactive fiction. You've brought your old and broken Apple II computer downtown to The Computer Lady hoping they can fix it.
Comrade (2015)
You are the new zampolit (political officer) of the Motherland's lunar base. Your first duty is to investigate the reported suicide of the previous zampolit and make an arrest, if possible.
Conan Kill Everything (2005)
In this short one-room game, you play as Conan with a very large sword, and an evil wizard has just summoned a wildcat to attack you. Your goal is obvious: KILL EVERYTHING.
Connect (2008)
In this small game, you play as a young Connection priest, recently captured by the Hedonans. When Connected, you can see what's hidden and access the memories of nearby objects and people. Use your abilities cleverly to escape, but there's a complication: another prisoner is somehow influencing or controling your mind and they want to escape as well.
The Corn Identity (2005)
In this multi-authored game, you play as someone who wakes up in a steel cube containing only a stone slab, a floor lamp, and a lever. If you manage to escape this doorless prison, you will find a corpse, a strange cornfield, and a mysterious underground complex. What on earth is going on?
Corrupter of Dreams (2017)
In this short story, you are Nightmare, the Corrupter of Dreams. You have entered a boy's pleasant dream about a garden, peaceful and beautiful, and dominated by a huge blossoming tree. How you ache to touch it. When the tree dies, the dream will die too.
Cough Cough (2003)
In this tiny game, you play as some guy dragged to Vegas for Travis's bachelor party, but you're broke and you're not having any fun. All the second-hand smoke in the casino isn't any fun either. Perhaps you should just leave?
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
In this very short adaption of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, you play as Edmond Dantes, a man wrongly imprisoned for espionage. Escape your cell in Chateau d'Cliff and take your revenge on those who imprisoned you.
The Courier Who Missed Me (1999)
In this small game, you play as a dashing young secret agent. You're here on West Avenue to stop the Courier from delivering the secret plans to the Roman.
Cragne Manor (2018)
In this huge tribute game to Anchorhead, you play as a woman named Naomi. You've just arrived at the train station in Backwater, Vermont to help your husband, Peter Cragne, out of some sort of difficulty. But considering all the horrors lurking about the town and Cragne Manor, you may be needing some help yourself.
CAUTION: This game comes with extensive content and concept warnings. Many unpleasant things can happen in this game.
Cramming (2011)
In this short game written as a programming exercise to learn Inform 7, you play as a generic student at an unnamed school. Let's assume it's a university or college. You need to finish your project (on some topic I'm sure you're at least vaguely interested in) and hand it in to your professor soon if you want to pass your course in whatever it is you're studying.
Cranial Pounding (2004)
In this very short game where adjectives are used as nouns, you play as someone who accidentally swallowed a truth serum pill instead of a pain relief pill. You need to expel it before your interrogator arrives.
The Crescent City at the Edge of Disaster (2001)
In this game, you play as the woman called the Dark Avenger and the best negotiator in war-torn New Orleans. You've managed to get those bastard mutant hamsters, the Bright Coalition, to agree to not destroy humanity utterly if you build a model of the Taj Mahal out of croutons in Jackson Square.
Crocodracula: The Beginning (2020)
In this charming light-horror game set in Opasassa, Florida, you play as Rebecca ("Becca") Drapkin, a normal teenager who discovers scales are growing on her shoulders and shins. Your best friend, Zoe, suggests talking to Miss Muriel about it. You were afraid she'd say that.
The Crouton Caper (2001)
In this teeny-tiny one-room game, you play as Jambalaya Guy, the superhero of New Orleans. Tonight, you're investigating a break-in at the big crouton factory north of town.
The Cruise (2001)
You play as a male tourist on a 3-day Carribean cruise on The Rhinoceros. It seems like a normal vacation until a self-proclaimed good and powerful wizard asks you to find and use three power crystals to destroy an evil wizard who is also on board.
Crystal and Stone, Beetle and Bone (2007-2013)
You play as the god of Aarkland, acting through a young girl named Lornedei who is your only true believer and the first child born in more than a hundred years with the old power. She is your last hope against the darkness. You must guide her.
The Crystal Palace (2011)
In this small fantasy game, you play as a young man named David Claré. You have decided to spend the weekend at the family country cabin owned by your second cousin Rebecca who disappeared over a year ago.
The Cube (2010)
In this small game, you play as the top researcher at your institution. Xenoarchaeologists have brought you an enigmatic cube discovered in the remnants of a lost civilization on a distant star system. Your task is to examine this cube thoroughly and report your findings, a great honour.
The Cube in the Cavern (2017)
In this puzzle game, you play as someone with a Ph.D. in both Psychokinetics and Psychohistory. You have found an ancient-looking cave containing a large floating cube where each face has its own gravity pulling you towards the cube's center! What could be in there? You have a mood ring, a map, and some rope to help you find out.
Curse of the Garden Isle (2018)
In this game, you play as an employee of the Natural History Museum on the island of Kaua'i. Tourists have this habit of taking rocks from the island, but when they finally realize what curse they've invoked, they mail the rocks back here. Today, it's your job to return the stolen rocks to their proper places on the island. Finding chickens everywhere is completely optional.
Curses (1993-1995)
In this huge puzzlefest, you're a Meldrew about to go on holiday, and your main goal is to find a map of Paris in the attic of Meldrew Hall. Downstairs, your family has made quite the meal of moving suitcases around; avoid them all. This game features time-travel, Tarot cards, Rods of Power, daisies, a family curse, and a tourist map of Paris.
D'ARKUN (2021)
In this horror adventure, you play as a student of chemisty who has chosen to spend her summer holiday at the old Putgarten home. You'll bicycle to the nearby town to Alterkirchen, see the sights, do some rock climbing, and uncover some unholy secrets about the Putgartens, including ... yourself?
Daddy's Birthday (2021)
In this small slice-of-life game, you play as Daddy on your birthday. After sleeping in a bit, go downstairs and find your daughters and Mummy. They've planned a small birthday party for you, and there's a present and some cake!
The Damp Camp (1999)
In this small game, you play as a young male camper. Unfortunately, a freak accident with plant growth chemicals has trapped you at a substandard campground, now surrounded by 50 feet high grass, and you must escape.
The Damsel and the Dragon (2000)
In this very short one-room game set in someone's personal library, you play as a would-be hero. The Damsel, Elise, is in obvious Distress. Could you please turn off her Dragon computer for her?
Danger School (2001)
You're sitting at your desk working busily away on your homework for tomorrow, when suddenly a giant killer robot bursts through the wall! Oh no!
Dangerous Curves (2000)
In this game, you play as a private detective hired by socialite Jessica Kincaid to investigate the brutal hit-and-run of her husband, the real estate tycoon Walter Kincaid. Police believe she's the most likely suspect: she has motive (if Walter dies, she'll inherit millions), a car just like hers driven by a woman who looks like her was seen speeding near where Walter was found, her car is missing, and her alibi isn't helpful. She needs your help to prove she didn't do it. Good luck, shamus.
Danny Dipstick (2021)
In this small game, you play as Danny Dipstick, a dork who's had no success picking up chicks at the local nightclub, but tonight will be different. With your neighbour's advice, you will fix your problems, you will talk to a nice girl, and you will get her phone number.
Dark Soul (2003)
In this sad story, you play as an operative force—perhaps a conscience? perhaps an angel?—within the mental landscape of this being. The soul of the being is pitch dark. Discover why this is so and determine what should be done next.
Darkiss Chapter 1: the Awakening (2015)
You play as the evil vampire lord Martin Voigt, rising from the dead a third time. You wish to recover your strength, leave your hidden lair, and enact revenge on your killers.
Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 2: Journey to Hell (2016)
You again play as the evil vampire lord Martin Voigt. After meeting with Lilith at the Yoshiwara Club, she has sent you to Ovranilla, a place in Hell. Your mission is to find the temple of the God-Star Valmar and convince its three priestesses to give you the secret to surviving sunlight, then return with it to the Club.
Dash Slapney and the Calamitous Candy Corn Cornucopia (2011)
In this silly small buggy game, you play as Dash Slapney. You foil the bad guys with a bare minimum effort and dumb luck. Your new mission: save Halloween here in Vanillaville. It's being taken over by candy corn.
Dawn of the Demon (2005)
This game takes place in the world of Zork, in and near the twin towns of Pheebor and Borphee, but hundreds of years before the events of the Zork series. You play as a young adventurer who plans to find the treasure of the Demon reputed to be hidden somewhere in the nearby woods.
A Day at the Iachini House (2001)
In this laidback game, you play as someone invited to the Puzzle house to do a few household chores. They're fairly simple tasks: repair the basement step, balance the pH in the hot tub, wash the afghan, start a fire in the fireplace, take a shower, then finish by watching some television. That doesn't sound too hard, does it?
A Day for Fresh Sushi (2001)
In this short one-room comedy, you play as a busy woman with a million errands to do. You've just rushed over from your chef job at the restaurant to Britney's apartment. You need to feed her evil fish.
The Day I came back (2014)
In this game, you once again play as Alex, lovable sociopath. In the last game, you died and you're now in a hellish replica of the house you share with your husband Paul. Your guide in Hell, Paul's dead and evil Uncle Wally, tells you that Paul isn't dead yet but an assassin has been sent after him. You need to reincarnate fast and save him!
The Day I died (2013)
In this game, you once again play as Alex, lovable sociopath. A few months ago on Voodoo Island, your husband Paul was abducted by a mad scientist and sent to Mercury! Unable to follow Paul, you escaped the island with Elvis, then used bribes and Alien Tech™ to get a portal to Mercury built on the golf course next door. It's time to drive this golf cart to the rescue!
The day I hugged Ghandi! (2011)
In this game, you are once again playing as Alex, lovable sociopath. You've been married to Paul for a year. One problem: the corpse of Paul's uncle Wally was found in that cemetery you left it in and Paul's decided to take the body to Wally's home island, St. Lincoln, off the coast of Florida. Worse, in Miami, you bought a fragile glass idol containing a demon that possesses dead bodies. This won't end well.
The Day I mauled Mao! (2008)
In this game, you once again play as Alex, a young gay man attending another New Year's Eve party at your boyfriend Paul's. Paul keeps having unexpected problems at his parties, like this Thompson's gazelle from the zoo lapping up all the champagne. Fortunately for Paul, the police never caught you and you're good at solving problems.
The Day I saved Elvis (2011)
In this game, you once again play as Alex, lovable sociopath. You and your husband Paul were heading to the island of St. Lincoln to deliver the corpse of Paul's late uncle Wally. Unfortunately, a demon-possessed kraken from nearby Voodoo Island attacked your yacht, and you're now underwater fighting the creature.
The Day I shot Alex (2017)
It begins with the hapless space station janitor, Xonathan Xask, responding to an emergency, but for most of this game, you're playing as Paul, a man with a flashback story to tell. You and your husband Alex's conflicts with the Queen of Hurts and Maladies got out of hand, with you trapped at the perfect New Year's Eve party and Alex becoming a power-mad galactic tyrant. But with the help of the Time Rangers and a golf cart, you're going to change all that.
The Day I shot Hitler! (2007)
You play as Alex, a young gay man attending a New Year's Eve party at your boyfriend Paul's. Paul would just love to host a perfect party, but he keeps running into unexpected problems, like this mouse in the bowl of eggnog. Fortunately for Paul, you're good at solving problems.
The Day I stabbed Stalin (2010)
In this game, you once again play as Alex attending yet another New Year's party at your boyfriend Paul's. What a year it's been. The world now has Alien Tech™, and your state now has gay marriage! Paul tells you he's invited his uncle Wally and some Dagon cultists from next door and asks you to behave yourself this time.
The Day of the Queen (2015)
In this game, you again play as Alex, lovable sociopath, except this time you're in the body of an 11-year-old girl and stuck in an airplane bathroom. (Your original body was lost on Mercury.) Meanwhile, the Queen of Hurts and Maladies has taken over the Earth, mutating over a quarter of the population into half-human hybrids, and then her sharkmen arrest your husband Paul. How will you solve this one?
The Day time stood still (2016)
In this game, you again play as Alex, lovable sociopath. Unfortunately, fate doesn't seem to love you at all. You've got a broken neck, you're in the middle of a burning forest, and your husband Paul, currently possessed by the evil spirit of his dead Uncle Wally, is approaching to kill you!
The Day we got a pet (2018)
In this game, you again play as Alex, lovable sociopath. Everything is back to normal (mostly), you're back home, and Paul's birthday is coming up. You plan to give him the Neptunian deathhound that he wants. It's just a matter of getting it home safely.
Dead Like Ants (2009)
You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to negotiate with them. This spring, the Queen wants you to be that daughter.
A dead man's hug (2017)
You are being chased by an angry cassowary.
But all you are trying to do is peel this potato.
The symbolism should be obvious.
Dead of Winter (2001)
In this short story that's part romance and part tragedy, you play as a young woman. A week ago, the Ice Queen stole your boyfriend from your bed, leaving a snowflake in his place. Now, you stand outside her cave, wondering what you must do to get her to give him back.
Dead Pavane for a Princess (2013)
In this tiny one-room horror story, you play as Maurice Ravel, noted composer, trapped in your own study by the zombie Claude Debussy. How will you stop him from reaching you and how will you escape?
Deadline, or, Being Douglas Adams (2001)
In this short one-room tribute to Douglas Adams, you play as someone in the bath with a rubber ducky. The phone is ringing, but it's quite far away from you.
DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH (2000)
In this very short and unpleasant excuse for a game, you play as a "gun-toting right-winger" who's upset with the government, "commies", and someone named "Tnson Aurner". Violence will be the answer.
Death Number Four (2021)
In this short game, you play as a heavily bandaged supernatural entity, summoned back into existence inside a pub's broom closet. The local police inspector needs you to get inside the locked graveyard and speak to the dead.
The Death of Two Great Minds (2001)
In this small tribute game to Douglas Adams, you play as Arthur Dent. Together with Fenchurch and Ford, you have travelled to the planet Preliumtarn to read God's Final Message To His Creation, which is said to be written in thirty-foot high letters of fire on top of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains.
Death Waif (2000)
In this short game, you play as Bill Spuggle, a city inspector and a regular of Hogan's tea bar where you hang out and drink tranq tea. Then a young pouty-faced woman dressed in black enters the bar and starts killing everyone, one by one, without saying a word.
December 31, 2002 (2001)
In this extremely short story, you have come to the office of Mr. Jacobson to take back what he took from you and your comrades, otherwise you will destroy the building. He will have no choice but to give in.
Deep Breathing (2006)
In this very abbreviated version of The Three Little Pigs, you play as someone tall and furry, with immense lungs and an empty stomach. You have tracked your quarry to a shack in the woods. There is, of course, a mailbox.
Deep Space Drifter (1988, 1990)
You play as a deep space explorer, trying to make your fortune, but your spaceship is nearly out of fuel and air, so you send out a distress signal and eventually dock at Space Station K-7. Unfortunately, the deserted station is being rocked by explosions, so it's not safe either. And if you can get to the planet below, what will you find there?
Delicious Breakfast (2010)
In this very short and very easy game, you play as someone (or something) who wants to eat some Delicious Breakfast. Yummy yummy!
Delightful Wallpaper (2006)
In this work, you play as an unusual non-corporeal entity, a sort of abstract director-cum-undertaker for the not-quite-dead, perhaps? Your initial task is to navigate a mansion that doesn't want you to navigate it. But once the mansion is tamed and the players have been summoned, you will assign intentions to your charges, leading them each by each to their Gorey ends.
Delusions Again (2011)
You play as Kevin Masters. You've been in a funk. Friends say you've been distant since Marilyn. You're now in the diner with Jim to make up your mind about something.
Desolation (2020)
In this game, you play as Ty. You run into an endless desert to get away from faceless men in white robes and an evil two-braided girl. You shudder thinking of her blood-red eyes and her shark-toothed grin. Can you survive in the desert? Can you escape her pursuit? Can you even remember what happened?
Dessert Island Adventure (2022)
In this fantasy game, you play as Orange Mehringer, an apprentice to Mary Hollywood, the famous pastry wizard. As part of your midterm exam, you must find as many magic ingredients as you can from this dessert island. (And no, that's not a typo.)
Destiny of the Chihuahua (2001)
In this tiny game set at an aluminium mining colony on Io, you play as the people's representative. You're expected to venture into the palace of the hated Commander Brutus and get him to capitulate.
Detective Osiris (2023)
In this story, you play as Osiris, a dead king reborn as a god. You awaken in the Duat, the underworld, and learn that you were murdered. As a new god without duties, you decide to investigate your own murder. Question the gods and anyone else who might know something. Justice will be served.
The Devil Made Me Do It (1998)
In this small game, you play as the Devil himself, watching a pair of children playing in their yard. It would be so satisfying to corrupt their innocent souls by tempting them to sin.
Dial C for Cupcakes (2014)
You play as Rae, a former ex-cop now working retail at a gift store. Another ex-cop, your former partner on the force, Bob, now works security at a place that sells fancy cupcakes. Bob feels that his boss owes him a dozen cupcakes, so he wants you to go to his boss's Hallowe'en party and, uh, acquire them.
Diddlebucker! (2018)
In this game, you play as a one-person team in the 27th Annual All-Night Diddlebucker Run after your teammates, Lori and David, ditched you to elope with each other. Well, who needs them anyway? If you're the first "team" to reach the secret finish line with all four of your team's treasures, you'll win one million dollars and a lifetime supply of Diddlebucker Popcorn! Let's go!
Die a Hero or Become the Villain (2012)
In this incomplete buggy game, you must either die or hero or become the villain! Assuming you're still alive, you're now the villain and you think of an evil scheme to carry out. You'll need a death laser, a satellite, and a computer with internet.
Digging For Onions (1999)
You play as an archaeologist at the site of the Eiffel Tower. Since it's a day of rest, you dare not do any work and risk being struck down by moonbeams. But you do love to look at the work already done and to walk around shamelessly unhooded where no one can see.
Digging thru Doctrine of the Dead (2004)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as a budding young scientist. After the DNA Duels, there's now several subspecies of the human race. Your race, the Ferret People, are despised, but you're hoping to change all that.
Digging Time! (2011)
You are Mendoza, a miner on Pluto. The planetoid is shaking. You need to find your fellow miners and get off this rock before it breaks apart completely.
Dinner Bell (2012)
You play as a test subject in a test chamber currently remodeled to look like your grandmother's kitchen. Through a two-way glass window, Dr. Beagle is waiting for you to fill a grocery bag with food items without eating any. You're starving, but you can't eat until the bell goes ding.
Dino Hunt (2000)
In this small game, you play as a kid in a playground. You want to play dinosaurs in the sand box, but you forgot to bring your toy dinosaurs with you.
A Dino's Night Out (2000)
In this small game, you play as a one-foot-tall velociraptor pet, but you are dissatisfied. Is this really how your life should be? Tonight, while your "owner" Tim and his family sleep, you will explore the house until you resolve your doubts. Three possible destinies await.
Diorama (1999)
You play as a fourth grade boy who made a cool diorama of a Maasai village for school, but the toy cow is missing! Is it hidden in the diorama somewhere? Or did one of your classmates take it?
Discord (2001)
In this short one-room mystery, you play as a detective. Three items were stolen: the mask, the banana, and the tea. You have three suspects: Hank Buzzcrack, Mother Theresa, and T. S. Eliot. It's time to start asking some questions.
Ditch Day Drifter (1990)
In this game, you play as an underclassman at the California Institute of Technology. Today is Ditch Day, where seniors lock their doors with devices and puzzles called "stacks", and underclassmen attempt to solve the stacks.
Djibouti Dirigible Discombobulation (2007)
In this small speed-if game, you play as Amelia "Barkers" Briscott, a freebooter and Englishwoman currently in the pay of the Ottomans. The French have captured the Ottoman Empire's most formidable dirigible battle platform in East Africa, the Spirit of Speed-IF. Headquarters had no choice but to send you in to get it back.
Djinn on the Rocks (2021)
In this small game, you play as a Djinn with a problem named James Merl III. James found your bottle and he wants you to MAKE HIM RICH. But your only powers are to APPRAISE, CURSE, and SWAP. Can you find all six ways to either grant his wish or entrap someone else in your bottle instead?
Domestic Elementalism (2017)
In this game, you play as a witch whose home is based on the four classical elements (fire, water, earth, and air). Unexpectedly, every room is malfunctioning; every aether gauge reads empty. You need to restore the elemental affinities to each room and find out why this happened in the first place.
Domicile (2003)
In this buggy, unwinnable fantasy game, you have inherited an estate from your great-uncle Robert Pire, whom you don't really know. The house is strangely empty of both furniture and rooms, but it proves to be even stranger when it sprouts new doors, one of which takes you to somewhere else entirely. Then the house collapses into a wooden plank. Not only was Robert Pire a magician, but you're about to become one too.
Don't Fire Until You See The Yellows Of Their Niblets (1999)
You're working the night shift at the Big Foods supermarket. You just need to finish sweeping the produce aisle and you can go home... unless you find yourself fighting a duel to the death with a corn monster instead.
Don't Push The Mailbox (2019)
In this very short joke game, you play as a homeowner. It's a beautiful day for working outside, but you're disturbed by the presence of what looks like a mailbox at the foot of your front lawn. What will you do about it?
Don't Push The Mailbox 2 and Aisle (2020)
This is a one-room, one-turn, joke game. It's also a tribute to Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, but instead of a phone booth, there's a mailbox. Interact with the game as much as you can until you run out of ideas to try, then quit.
Doom, Death, Destruction and All That (2001)
In this tiny one-room game, you're attending the 2009 XYZZY Awards. Psmith is about to present the award for Best Game, but then you hear someone mention there's a hidden bomb and the doors are locked. And then you hear ticking.
Doomsday (1999)
In this game, you play as Agent Seafoam, a secret agent from the future. Disguised as a Taco Bell janitor, you have traveled to 1999 to prevent Agent Blue from delivering the plans to the Doomsday Machine which will destroy North Dakota.
Down (1997)
In this short game, you play as a survivor of an airplane crash. You regain consciousness on a gentle slope with a broken leg, your watch beside you. Help yourself and the other survivors as best you can.
Down, the Serpent and the Sun (2015)
You are the last survivor of a god's malice. The feathered serpent has swallowed the sun and all the warriors and priests have been slain. Soon, you too will be swallowed. What do you think you can do once you're down inside the beast?
Dr. Death's House of Horrors (1992)
The game begins with you in a jail cell and the walls are closing in! If you escape this death trap, you will find that you are still trapped in a wax museum called Dr. Death's House of Horrors. Yes, you are dreaming all this, but the only way to escape this nightmare is to find ten keys and learn how to use them.
Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. (1999)
In this large game, you're a physics student. Since you're the only one who showed up to Dumont's class, he takes you to his lab to show you his P.A.R.T.I. — Particle Accelerator and Reality Translation Integrator. That is, he's connected an AI to a cyclotron so a "subonaut" can now explore the subatomic world metaphorically in virtual reality to search for Particle X. Long story short, you accidentally become the first subonaut while Dumont looks for a screwdriver.
Dr Ego and the egg of Man-Toomba (2020)
In this small adventure game, you play as Dr Ego, an archeologist in search of treasure. Today, you're in an uncharted area of Papua New Guinea looking for the legendary Golden Egg of Man-Toomba.
Dr Horror's House of Terror (2021)
This large horror game begins with you as the Professor facing the Count and his vampire thralls in a final showdown. But wait. Actually, you're an actor in a low-budget horror film, and the studio head and a crowd of cultists are about to sacrifice you in order to summon Astaroth and all the minions of hell! You've got to save yourself and stop him, but how?
Dr Who and the Ribos Operation (2017)
In this re-creation of a Doctor Who episode, you play as the Time Lord known as Doctor Who. The White Guardian asks you to find a segment of the Key of Time hidden on the pre-tech planet Ribos. Your companions in this adventure are Ramona and K-9.
Dragon! (2000)
In this extremely short game, you play as a dragon who's flown from New Jersey to Chicago for one reason: to eat the man known as Jarb.
Dragon Adventure (2003, 2004)
In this game written for children, you play as an adventurer forced into dealing with a local dragon. The council tells you there's a sword that can slay it and there's a spell that keeps the dragon in the area. Armed only with this advice and your wits, you begin to explore the region.
The Dragon Diamond (2017)
In this old-school adventure game, you play as Bash the Barbarian. You have been ordered by the evil Queen Drana to obtain the Dragon Diamond which is somewhere in the Forest of Fear.
Dragon Flies Like Labradorite (2011)
In this fantasy game, you play as an adventurist in the sleepy village of Skry Im. You're in a right mess: you're down to your last farthing and the dragonfly is missing. Which way did she go? Start your quest in the minerals and archery supplies shop to the northeast.
Dragon George and The Man (2000)
In this fantasy adventure, you play as a young dragon named George. While trying to find an undergound troll kingdom, you are attacked by a mimesis-breaking man named Bruce who finds you too cute and clichéd to live. After you both fall far underground, he reluctantly offers to cooperate with you, warning this isn't going to be a stupid buddy comedy where two mismatched guys become friends.
Dream Pieces (2013)
In this one-room playful wordplay game, you wake in your bedroom but it's just not the same! You're dreaming. It's a seeming. So take everything. Break, burn, and cut 'em: the pieces they bring! Mix pieces together and make something new. Now escape from this dream; that's what you must do.
Dream Pieces 2: The Lego Box (2018)
In this wordplay game, your dreams have taken you to a dream version of your family home where everything is made from Lego but none of the rooms have any exits. You'll need to break the things you find and mix the parts with other parts to make your own exits. Escape all nine rooms to win.
The Dream-Trap of Zzar (2011)
In this lightly-erotic tale, you play as Captain Galactic, science hero. Professor Zzar has just used evil technology to put you into a Level IX Subconscious Psychic Comatose Preservation State! How will you escape his dream trap? And what's with all these monkeys?
Note: This work is intended for mature audiences only.
The Dreamhold (2004)
You play as someone who wakes in an empty stone cell with amnesia and a quill pen. You soon discover that the cell is part of a dreamhold, a wizard's high house. The dreamhold is filled with many strange and puzzling things, but if you're diligent, you should be able to find out who you are and where you should go.
Dreary Lands (2005)
In this small buggy game by a young first-time author, you play as someone in a brightly-colored room with a hot-pink rod sticking out from one wall. You don't know who or where you are, but you will deal with your surroundings and ultimately escape them. Features an evil tree and seven arrows named "(which is currently burning."
Droll Toll Troll (2013)
In this short game, you are a little furry thing. It's your first time outside! Master has told you to deliver a bag of quims to the quim delivery station to the east. But the road goes over a bridge, and the droll toll troll demands you pay the toll before he'll let you cross it.
Duckman (2017)
In this game, you play as Duckman, an anthropomorphic duck wearing a trenchcoat and a sombrero. You'll use your duck powers, assuming you have any, to fight crime and corruption in your city.
Dude, Where's My Scapula? (2016)
You play as Alex, an undead skeleton, who wakes up after a party in the graveyard to discover his entire shoulder bone is missing. You better find it and put it back on if you want to use your right arm ever again.
Dungeon Detective (2018)
In this game, you play as a gnoll named Sniff Chewpaw, the Dungeon Detective. You will make your way to a cave and meet your new client, a red dragon named Hargurrath whose dungeon has been looted. Hargurrath wants you to find out who the thieves are so he can bring them to justice. He will pay you well for this information.
Dutch Dapper IV: The Final Voyage (2000–2002)
You play as the great space-time detective Dutch Dapper near the end of his career. Despondent after the events of the prologue, he goes on one last adventure.
Dwenodon: The First Element of the Cycle of Joining (2002)
In the town of Stonebrook, you play as a boy named David who is being followed by a strange man in black. A street vendor, believing the stranger to be an evil wizard, advises you to seek help from Brother Thaddeus in the Temple of Seven. But the temple guardian is of little help and a boy can't evade an evil wizard forever. Eventually, you will learn that your only real hope of safety lies far to the north in the city of Dwenodon.
Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night! (2018)
In this game, you play as Commander Dynamite Powers, a member in good standing in the Sentinels of Outer Space. On Mars, the maniacal Lord Infamy has trapped you in a cage descending into a pool of ravenous razorfish! The fiend! You need to escape and stop him from destroying the Earth with his diabolical Ray of Night!
Earl Grey (2009)
In this small surreal wordplay game, you are visiting Eaves in his secret garden to help prepare for the biggest tea party of the year. It's a dream come true until you anger your host with a frivolous knock and he summons your new nemesis, the dread Earl Gry.
Easter Egg Hunt 2020 (2020)
In this lighthearted scavenger hunt, it's your job to find twelve colorful Easter eggs in other works of interactive fiction! But who are you collecting them for and why?
Eat Me (2017)
In this game, you play as an extraordinarily hungry child with a hole in your stomach. You've been imprisoned in this dungeon cell long enough. Eat your way to freedom, my darling. Everything in this castle is edible. Eat everything you find. Eat until you can forget what hunger even means.
Eat the Eldritch (2023)
In this oddly disturbing game, you play as Jun Do, the captain of the fish processing vessel Tataki. You've been searching the Pacific Ocean for fish for days, but without any luck. Do one last scan, then take a break and get some food.
Edge of the Cliff (2011)
In this very short one-room trollish story, you play as a young woman whose heart is broken because of HIM. You are at the edge of the cliff with a bottle of whiskey in your hand. Your diary, sandals, and bandana lie beside you.
Eduard the Seminarist (2007)
It's the evening of May 13th, 1824, in Germany. You play as Eduard, a student at the seminary. You want to sneak out and meet your friends Wilhelm and Scardanelli in Pressel's gazebo before midnight.
An Eggcellent Preparation (2023)
In this game, you play as a man in love with the beautiful milkmaid, Clio. It is the anniversary of your first date, and you plan to propose to her at a romantic picnic. Clio needs hard-boiled eggs for her famous salad, and you have an idea how to make that special too.
Eight Miles High (2014)
In this short choice-based game inspired by a song lyric, you play as someone who arrives at an airport, then takes a limo to some street. You're not sure where you are and it's hard to focus in all this rain.
The Elements (2020)
In this game, you play as the grandchild of Stradivarius. Your musical career begins when you find one of his violins. Ten years after retiring, you get a summons from the queen to perform. Now you must find the six elements, magical runic stones, to restore and enhance your talent.
Elephants and the Afterlife (2000)
You play as someone in a Chinese restaurant with no exits, a blocked up chimney, and a peanut. Then an elephant bursts in through the east wall and accidentally kills you. The game continues from there.
The Empty Chamber (2019)
In this one-room mystery, you play as Miss Celia Swift. Since you are regarded as some sort of genius at solving mysteries, you have been invited by Inspector Land to the boarding room of the late Frederick Hackett who was shot behind his locked door three days ago. Can you figure out who shot him and how?
Empty rooms (2011)
In this small minimalist game which was meant as an introduction to interactive fiction, you play as someone in a nearly empty room. Take the torch, explore the other nearly empty rooms, and find a way to escape.
En Garde (2018)
When this short game begins, your character can't remember where or who they are. To add to your confusion, instead of typing commands, you'll be clicking unlabelled colored buttons where each button corresponds to a command like "east" or "eat". Explore your environment, learn who you are and what happened to you, then solve the remaining problems and save a troubled world.
The Enchanted Castle (2019)
In this simple game, you play as a young man. You fell asleep reading about castles and somehow wake up in one. Now find as much treasure as you can and rescue the princess!
Encryptment (2000)
There's no program, just a text file. The story is you found some notes from the Text Adventure Museum about a crypt with puzzling inscriptions. Curious, you visit the Museum, but it's now a Church. Its Cardinal shows you several shrines with even more inscriptions. Can you figure out what they're all about?
The Encyclopedia of Elementals (2013)
In this medieval fantasy game, you are a novice magic user who has some small power over fire, force, or light. During a restless night in the castle, you find the Encyclopedia of Elementals in the forbidden library, but no sooner than you do so when you hear a huge commotion in the main hall. The castle is collapsing and on fire! Assuming you escape alive, your adventure is beginning.
Endgame (2004)
In this well-crafted one-room puzzle, you play as a wizard gambling everything for a chance to gain immense power. In a deep underground sealed chamber, your spell summons an egg from another reality into your drawn pentagram. How will you deal with this egg? Decide wisely and quickly, or soon you will be dead.
Endgame (2004)
In this well-crafted one-room puzzle, you play as a wizard gambling everything for a chance to gain immense power. In a deep underground sealed chamber, your spell summons an egg from another reality into your drawn pentagram. How will you deal with this egg? Decide wisely and quickly, or soon you will be dead.
Endless Sands (2015)
You play as a mostly-nondescript vampire. The corrupt "Vampire Queen" kidnaps and dumps you in the unforgiving desert; she needed a fall-guy and you were the closest candidate. Sunrise is at 6 AM. If you don't find shelter before then, you're dead.
The Enigma of the Old Manor House (2022)
Dared by your friends, you've broken into the house where old Doctor Black mysteriously died decades ago. Based on the ghost stories you've heard, you think there's now a poltergeist in there, and if you're right, that's a ghost you can find... and trap.
Enlightenment (1998)
In this one-room game, you play as a Zorkian adventurer at the end of his quest. One last monster, a regenerating cave troll, is blocking your way across the chasm bridge that leads to the exit. Retreat is impossible. Killing the troll is impossible too, unless you can get a g*** to kill it for you. But g***s only appear when it's pitch black and you have so many sources of light...
Entropy (2016)
You play as the android teacher, Chrysilya, on the planet Earthangelos. You have been severely damaged by an attack by the Tra 'Jan Gore and the landscape is now a radioactive wasteland. Survival is a high priority, but perhaps you can do more?
EPISODE 2: Revenge of the Mutant Spiders (2000)
You play as someone tasked with conveying a dead body through this house's torch-lit upper passageways. (Part 2 of a 6-part series.)
The Epitome of Toastlessness (2003)
In this very short game, you play as someone in the land of No TOAST. There is NO TOAST here. Can you do something about it?
Epyk (2009)
In this short, unplayable, and surreal "game", you could be anyone who happens to be in an open field. If you do the wrong thing, the author will kill you in various spectacular ways. How epic! (But if you cheat and decompile the program, you could get a taco and actually win this stupid thing.)
Erehwon (1999)
In this nerdy puzzle game, you play as a 13-year-old youth carrying a lot of emotional baggage in the one-horse town of Erehwon, Aksarben. You're desperate to gain the approval of Smurf and his gang and join in their game of "Nowhere, Nebraska", but they need five dice to play and nobody's got any.
Eric's Gift (2002)
In this story, based on a dream by the author, you play as an unnamed man who knows he will meet a particular woman at 3:30 am in Turill Plaza. How you first met her and how you knew you would meet her again at this time and place is what this story's about.
The Erudition Chamber (2003)
In this game, you play as a senior novice of the Keep who has been sent into the Erudition Chamber after causing a horrific time flow accident. Expecting punishment, you instead find that the Chamber is a testing area. How you solve the Chamber's puzzles will determine your aptitude in each of the Warrior, Artisan, Alchemist, and Seer orders.
Eruption (2009)
In this small straightforward escape game, you play an an island villager who wakes up in a small cave after a night of drinking. You soon discover that everyone's left the island because the volcano is about to erupt! Find a way off the island and soon!
Escape from Dinosaur Island (2018)
In this retro-styled game, you play as someone who crash-landed their hot air balloon on Dinosaur Island. Your goal, of course, is to escape this island and get back to civilization.
Escape from Ice Station Hippo (2012)
You play as Thor Heyerdahl Anderson, hired to work at Ice Station Hippo with several other experts. Unfortunately, life on the station was a series of incompetent disasters ending with an ill-conceived party to celebrate abandoning the place. You pass out drunk, then wake up to a deserted station. They all left without you! How are you going to escape?
Escape from the Arboretum (2002)
In this sprawling old-school puzzle game, you play as a resident of the Arboretum, which is a decaying city district cut off from the rest of world, fit only for hippies, zombies, and other disgusting creatures like yourself. Your goal is "to contact an outside force and escape the evil mind-numbing powers of the Arboretum."
Escape From the Mechanical Bathhouse (2020)
In this small whimsy of a game, you play as a man who, after a very rough day at work, is now dreaming he's in a bathhouse for mechanical people. Explore this facility of clockwork, keys, and oil. If you're very good at examining absolutely everything, you may not only be able to find a way out of here, but also find a way to relax.
Escape from the Starship Zenon (2000)
You play as someone accused of "multi-planaterial" murder and thrown into the brig of the Starship Zenon with a life sentence. But I'm sure someone as clever as you can find a way to escape.
Escape from the Underworld (2008)
You play as Bobby T. Minion, a demon who has become dissatisfied with torturing the damned in the Underworld. Your superiors are already suspicious and have revoked your security clearance, restricting you to the lowest floor, the Infernal Regions. You must make your way up to the top floor if you want to escape from the Underworld.
An Escape to Remember (2006)
In this multi-authored game, you play as an secret agent of some sort, holed up in this hotel suite for weeks, hoping that Maurice's insider is for real. Then you hear the signal: a gong ringing three times. It's time to move.
Eschew as if you were She (2001)
In this minimalist work, you can visit each of the four seasons where there are representative items — and She.
Eunice (2018)
In this game, you have finally arrived in the fantasy land of Eunice. Here, in the Eunice light, you look like an adventurer, but Eunice itself looks tired and rundown. Use the power of positive, life-affirming actions to restore Eunice's vitality.
Everybody Loves a Parade (1997, 1999)
You play as a woman driving a moving van across the United States to her new job as New York City's Assistant to the Chief Engineer. Your gas runs out when you arrive at Chewton, Arizona which is having its 40th annual rock festival, and they don't mean music. They're celebrating actual rocks. And you spent your last money on tacos. How are you going to get out of here?
Everything We Do Is Games (2015)
You play as... no, sorry, you don't play at all. The work closes as soon as possible, depending on the interpreter used. This is a work empty of text, a null game, and the player is given no opportunity to type or click anything.
Excelsior (2014)
In this generic puzzlefest that uses a minimalist command set, you play as someone who finds and explores a very tall tower in a forest. There's no story here. Just solve the puzzles and reach the roof to win.
The extraordinary events of the last day of Professor Mangleworth (2011)
In this Holmesian short story, you play as Professor Mangleworth, despondent about the death of your daughter, your little dragonfly. You plan to kill yourself, but your death must not appear as a suicide, or you will bring great shame to your family.
Eye of the Inca (1992)
You play as a treasure hunter exploring a long lost Incan temple. You're looking for 26 gold treasures and a giant diamond called the "Eye of the Inca"! Bring them all outside the temple to the jungle clearing where the game starts and say SCORE to win.
Face your fears (2021)
In this light-hearted game about phobias, you play as someone on edge. Uneasy. You decide that the best way to deal with this is to explore and face your fears one by one. The ending involves a really bad pun.
Fade to Black (2004)
In this tiny game, you play as one of hundreds of stagehands at the 2003 XYZZY Awards ceremony. Justin Timberlake is here backstage with you and let's just say you're not a fan.
Fairyland (2019)
In this tiny unchallenging game, you play as a small wingless sprite who recently moved into town. You're still exploring the place, and Derek the dwarf wants you to find his lost mushroom.
Falling Angel (2003)
In this short game, you play as an angel fallen from grace, yet not quite lost. Not quite. On this lonely road in the world of mankind, you must decide if you will fully surrender to Lucifer or if you will try to redeem yourself.
Falling to Pieces (2023)
This dark short story begins with you in a decompression chamber whose airlock is leaking air into outer space. You don't remember who you are or how you got here, but the alarms and the sense of impending danger suggest you need to get to safety as soon as possible.
The Familiar (2020)
In this short one-room fantasy game, you play as a thirteen year-old. It's time for you to enter the cavern where your family has summoned their familiars for generations. Shame you didn't study how it's done, but surely you can summon something better than Uncle Steve's whatever-it-is.
Fantastic Finale IV (2009)
In this short one-room game, you play as someone playing an RPG late at night. It's now the final boss battle against the Grue Lord. You're determined to finish this game no matter what, but can you win quickly enough and then get enough sleep so you can also pass your history exam in the morning?
The Fantasy Dimension (2023)
In this small game, you play as an office worker in a high-tech airlock. How did you got there? A speaker voice asks you to pick a dimension to travel to. "Home" is rejected, but "fantasy world" works. Enjoy your generic fantasy adventure!
Fat Fair (2019)
In this disturbing game told in third-person, you play as Borsch, an obese boy with mental disorders. A strange thought entered his thick skull. Borsch roused himself from his usual lethargy and traveled to this industrial zone on the outskirts of Kaurakangerteleva, Finland, to open a "Fat Fair". And now he wants to set up these "attractions" for the Fair: a colorful sign at the entrance, a bath of acid, and an incinerator.
Feeling Adventurous (2013)
In this campus exploration game, you begin in the Red Square at the University of Washington to solve a puzzle. All you know is that the answer to the puzzle is a word, and that there will be clues leading you to that word.
Ferryman's Gate (2020)
In this game, you play as a kid who recently moved from New York to west Georgia to live in the manor house that your family inherited from your eccentric great uncle, Osmond Ferryman. You soon learn that your uncle was obsessed with commas and how to use them correctly. You also learn that he may have hidden a secret inheritance just for you!
Fido and The Dead Body (2000)
You play as a kid trying to move a dead body down into the basement, but Fido, the little mutt poodle that hates you is standing in front of the basement door. (Part 5 of a 6-part series.)
Fifteen (1998)
In this simple sparse puzzle game, you play as a homeowner who needs to find four TREASURES near your house and put them on your kitchen table. You'll also need to solve a randomized slider puzzle, also known as a 15-puzzle.
The Fifth Continent (2019)
In this small game, you play as a tourist in Kent. You've always been curious about the Romney Marsh, so you're going to take a walking tour through it and see what you can find.
fin de sickleburg (2018–2020)
In this extremely short gothic story, you have returned to your chamber from the Sickleburg Opera and it's nearly dawn. Do you wish to LOOK around, EXAMINE what's here, take INVENTORY, TAKE OFF what you're wearing, or SLEEP?
Final Assault of the Big Green Cliches (2001)
In this short work, it's last stand time. You're pinned down with your companions, Waptrap, Mindbraid, and Aur in a bad position behind a fallen pillar. The infidels are well within range, but you can't see them. Take as many of them down with you as you can.
Final Exam (2015)
You play as someone about to sit your final exam to become an Administrator, one of the beings that governs Europe. But something's wrong. The sky is black and the Administration Centre is empty. The Central Administrator contacts you and tells you that the Centre is under attack from a computer virus, and that you must act physically where he cannot. Will you act as directed, or will you act to aid the attackers? Where is the real threat? Is this your final exam?
Find the Bed (2010)
In this thinly-implemented speed game, you play as someone in a scary house who needs to go to bed within TEN turns, otherwise you're gonna die.
Finding Henry (2001)
You play as someone who's been travelling thousands of miles around the world looking for your pet rabbit Henry. You recently learned he was seen near this Mediterranean beach.
Finding Light (2021)
In this fantasy game, you play as the guardian familiar known as Ezra, formed from light and given to Aurel when he was a child. Today, you wake up bleeding in a forest. You remember raiders attacking. Aurel is gone. You must find him. Your astral gem lets you turn into a black fox with enchanced smell and the ability to speak to animals.
Finding the mouse (2009)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as someone in their mostly-empty kitchen who wants to use their computer. But where's the mouse? Where did that thing go?
The Fire Party Penguins Mustn't Go Out (2021)
In this short game, you are a homeowning penguin invited to the Posh Penguin Party hosted by the Fire Penguins. You have two tasks to do today. First, eat breakfast. Second, go to the local campground and help build the bonfire.
Firebird (1998)
You are Prince Ivan, the third son of a tsar. After a prologue sequence, you are ordered by your father to capture the Firebird, a task where your older brothers, Dimitri and Vasilii, have failed. The story is based on Russian folk tales.
First Person (2014)
I don't like trespassers in my woods, not one bit. I locked you in a room in the basement. Hope you don't mind the corpse. You're not the first person to trespass here. (One room. Very short.)
The First Snows of Winter (2013)
In this game, you play as a member of the Sorcerer's Guild. The president of the Guild has sent you to Cordh-am-Creoig, a small village in the highlands, to find out what's happened to the guild there, who haven't been heard from in a month.
FIRST WAVE, Then Jump Up and Down Screaming (1999)
You play as someone acting as a penniless drifter in an aliens-versus-the-world story. Your task: climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower and defeat an evil alien's evil plan!* — * Now with footnotes!
Fish And Spaceships (2002)
You play as a crewmember on the bridge of the Starship Pomegranet on a holy crusade for the Legion of the Light. Suddenly a massive explosion rocks the ship! Helga screams, "It's the Decepticons!" Captain Achtung shouts, "Launchen das counterstriken!"
Fish Bowl (2012)
In this tiny horror game, you play as Larry Wyndham, the drunk beachcomber. Your skin is sweating. You live a simple life in this shack. Everything you need, the sea will provide. Eventually. But when did you get a fish bowl?
Fish-Bot! (2003)
In this very short game with several possible endings, you play as a sentient goldfish masquerading as a human using the Fish-Bot 2000. Tonight, you're in the Franco-Texan embassy to gain the respect of the Franco-Texan people for fishkind.
The Five Tutors (2001)
You play as a TV actor who needs to study their vacuum cleaner repair homework. You wish you had a tutor. In fact, you cry out loud, "I wish I had five tutors!" You should be more careful what you wish for.
Flat Feet (2005)
In this comedic game, you play as a cat named Jacques. You and your throwable ferret partner, Ralph, are private investigators in need of a case. Soon, you're hired to find a thief who's been stealing art and artifacts all over San Francisco!
Flexible Pants (2001)
You play as an employee in the Blue Jean division of Rockets, Sprockets, and Pants. It's time to leave the building and drive to Angela's house for some smooching.
Flotsam and Driftwood (2014)
In this small song-inspired game, deadly things have trapped you into a dead end. If you pray for help, darkness engulfs you and takes you to the "home by the sea": a dark beach with shadow figures sitting around a fire. The figures are friendly, but you've forgotten who you are.
A Flustered Duck (2009)
You play as Elliott, a pig-boy. It starts when Granny Grabby orders you to get Mabel the duck down from the roof. You try, but a series of unfortunate events ensue ending with Mabel swallowing the diamond ring you planned to give to Suzette! You need to get that ring back, but how?
Folkar Station (2007)
In this incomplete game, you play as a standard clone, revived from cryosleep to deal with three emergencies on the deserted station that's orbiting Mars. Your first task, and only task in this intro, is to repair a hull breach.
Foo Foo (2016)
You play as Miss Good Fairy, senior detective. Someone bopped a field mouse on the head, and the obvious suspect, a rabbit named Foo Foo, claims he didn't do it. You agree to hide Foo Foo while you investigate the case.
Food Magic (2010)
In this small silly game, you play as someone who's far more interested in cooking up varieties of Old Granny's soda bread than paying the landlord his rent money. America!
For A Change (1999)
In this game of lyrical and dreamlike prose, you find yourself on a "resting" in the shade of a High Wall, a guidebook by your side and a rock in your hand. You may not know who you are or how you got here, but you do know that you must return the sun to this land. In short:
The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock.
For the Moon Never Beams (2019)
In this horror game, you're taking Kelly Peterson, a pretty redheaded junior, to the prom. Unfortunately, she's having an allergic reaction to the silver chain you gave her, and later, as the moon comes out, she turns into a werewolf! Save yourself, obviously, but there must be something you can do to help her!
Foreign Soil (2020)
In this very incomplete game, you play as a pilgrim to another planet. You were the first to be revived from stasis when your spaceship landed, and it's now your job to turn the crater you landed in into something habitable before waking up the other pilgrims.
Foreign Soil (2021)
In this science-fiction game, you play as a female pilgrim to another planet. After recovering from stasis, you note someone else woke before you and that the other coffins are contaminated with flora. Find the other person, and turn the crater you landed in into something more habitable than endless orange sand.
The Forests of Lachryma (2011)
You play as Aris Bleph, an important citizen of the Upper Forest of Lachryma, one of the twin nations currently threatened with catastrophy. Scientists recently spotted an asteroid plummeting towards the Milk Sea and it is now your duty to retrieve that asteroid.
FORK: The Great Underground Dining Room (2007)
In this large puzzle game, you play as someone on vacation who enjoys old video games, especially Atari and Commodore ones. Therefore, you're at a games convention in this odd hotel, looking for adventure. Explore far enough and who knows what you'll find? Maybe you'll even have dinner with some old friends.
CAUTION: Many read-author's-mind moments.
Founder's Mercy (2019)
In this game, you are the last person on the agricultural spacestation RWSS Founder's Mercy. Everyone else has left or died. Your parents were the last. You feel so alone. But today, you will leave this place and find people on another world.
Four Days of Summer (2017)
In this pleasant and silly game, spend the first four days of July with your friend David, a shameless author-insertion character who seems inordinately fond of making interactive fiction references.
The Four Eccentrics (2019)
In this surreal game that may be just a dream, you fall out of the sky into a park, but instead of waking up, your left arm falls off. Nearby, you find the beautiful Architect, her face made of flowers, indisposed with a large weevil lodged in her brain. Later, you learn that the Expert, the Engineer, and the Farmer have not been seen in ages, their fates unknown. The absence of the Expert is particularly troubling, since with her vast knowledge, she could quickly fix the land's ills.
Frankenstein's Legacy (1992)
In this horror game, you play as Victor Frankenstein's last living relative. He's invited you to the family estate so you can assist him in bringing his newest creature to life.
A Freak Accident Leaves Seattle Pantsless (2000)
You play as a student taking a class in existential physics. You need to do this experiment you invented, what you privately call "smoke and nonsense with missing sock and wire hanger", but you don't have a wire hanger.
A Freak Accident Leaves Seattle Pantsless III: Endgame (2000)
You play as someone who's been chasing a sock across North America for fifteen years. Once it was your favorite sock, but then it went bad. Very bad. Now it's back in Acapulco, hiding in this very shop.
Freedom (2000)
You play as Hank, the Snugley family handyman. You just finished fixing their framastructure yet again, although you wonder why it's in the kitchen. You also wonder why a rich family like the Snugleys has such a thin and sour daughter like Sally. Perhaps you'll look around a bit before you go.
Frenemies: Or, I Won an Andy Phillips Game (2019)
In this one-room escape game, you're a guy who lives on the top floor room of a boarding house. You need your private time to play IF! Unfortunately, your housemates decided to prank you by barricading your door somehow so you can't get out. The house WiFi just disconnected and you don't have a phone or a bathroom in here. Time to solve this puzzle, get your door open, and escape.
The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man (1999)
In this game about under-powered superheroes, you play as Improv, leader of the Frenetic Five. You use common objects in surprisingly useful ways. While queueing for stamps at the Post Office, you receive your new mission: stop Mr. Redundancy Man's plan to entangle the world in red tape. His secret HQ is in the copy shop.
The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang (1997-1998)
In this game about under-powered superheroes, you play as Improv, leader of the Frenetic Five. You use common objects in surprisingly useful ways. Bob, your contact at Supertemps, hires your team for a new job: defeat the melodramatic supervillains Sturm und Drang who have holed up in the abandoned flange mill at the waterfront.
Friar Bacon's Secret (2000)
In this game, you play as Miles, a peasant hired by Friar Bacon to do manual labor. Friar Bungay asks you to fetch Friar Bacon; he needs to speak to him. But Friar Bacon isn't in his room and he never left the building, so where is he?
Frobozz Magic Support (1996-1997)
You play as a novice glyph support clerk but no one's around but an animated burin. It seems the more experienced support clerks are either lost, got themselves un-implemented, or got stuck in a timeloop. And, of course, everyone else in Zork wants assistance too. No one said your first day on the job would be easy!
from Portland get XOXO (2014)
In this very buggy and banal adventure, find a way to get to Portland, then try to find where XOXO 2014 is in Portland, then try to attend its many minimally-described events.
From Thanet to New Romney (2020)
In this sequel to Kentish Plover, you decide to spend some more time exploring Margate and the surrounding area, before returning home to write more interactive fiction. You begin in Ylloh, a Kent-based company that produces clocks.
Frozen (1996)
You play as a university or college student who, while working on an English assignment, discovers that everyone else in the Engineering building is frozen in place, unmoving. You will investigate this unusual situation.
Fun and Games (2000)
You play as Timmie, playing with your Gameboy in your special no-girls-allowed corner of the attic. Suddenly, the window opens and a bad guy who looks really mean sneaks in! You manage to kill him before he can hurt you, but now you have to do something with the body. What did they do in all those TV movies that your mom didn't want you to see? (Part 1 of a 6-part series.)
further (2013)
You play as the spirit of someone who just died. You're trying to find your way to the afterlife by collecting colour-coded memories.
Future Threads (2017)
You play as someone who must merge at noon inside an obelisk to protect yourself from this world's poisons. But you have seen a vision. They will come, seven strong, crashing their ship through your weavings. Their senses will lead them directly to the girl, Kayla, no matter where she hides. And she will be alone. Traces of your vision persist. Can you use your visions to find a way to ensure that Kayla survives?
Fætt Tiw (2007)
In this small game, you play as one agent of many tasked with searching French cities for the stolen spirit of SpeedIF. You're in the French Quarter in New Orleans, and headquarters can go get stuffed. You're here to party.
Gaia, Živa, Jarilo (2020)
In this work, you are an Earthling tourist visiting a zoo on Živa which features animals from three worlds. Explore the place at your leisure. There is no goal you must accomplish, and although the work has its secrets, the only puzzle you must solve is the mundane exercise of buying a wristband at the entrance.
Galaxy Jones (2023)
In this game, you play as Galaxy Jones, the solar system's greatest hero. The evil industrialist, Admiral P. X. Thallium, has invited you to rescue Europa Callisto, the famous singer and actress, from the top of the Viking Building in New Reykjavik, Mars. You expect an impressive number of killer robots, but they'll be no match for Galaxy Jones.
The Gallery of Henri Beauchamp (2008)
In this very short story adapted from a "creepypasta", you might be anyone visiting a dingy bar in Paris. If you can prove you're a devotee of the artist Henri Beauchamp, you may able to see a very exclusive gallery show of his lost works.
The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode (2010)
In this children's game, you play as a child who wants to give tasty carrots to all the rabbits hiding in the neighbourhood. And that seems to be all it is.
But is there a hidden Nazi mode? The author says that stuff was removed. His published source code seems to confirm that. But then, why that title? Do you trust the author? Is his game really about rabbits or is it about finding out if it's truly kid-friendly or not?
Garden of the Dragon (2000)
In this short game, you play as someone who's trekked to a Chinese restaurant whose take-out food is absolutely horrid, but your friends insist that if you get a table and order from the menu, the food is great. So you're here to get a table and find out if that's true.
The Garden of Verging Paths (2015)
In this short story, you play as someone waking up in Grandma's guest room, but much later than you intended. Huh, the alarm clock's missing. Grandma left a note saying she wanted you to sleep in today, and to meet her on the patio. Now where are your glasses? Didn't you leave them on the side table?
The Garlic Cage, Episode I (2012)
In this surreal escape game, you play as someone who wakes up trapped in a glass box inside a white room, and everything in the room, including you, smells like garlic.
Gateway of the Ferrets (2019)
In this one-room puzzle game, you find yourself on a semi-circular ledge with two ferrets (Sugar and Cinnamon), a kibble dispenser, and a strange imposing pedestal. The only possible way to escape is through a locked gateway with a perplexing readout.
Gaucho (2012)
Your dream vacation to a ghost town in Texas took a turn for the worse when your allergies acted up. Forced to take a nap to recover, you wake to hear your tour bus leaving without you. So now your goal is to survive one night in this ghost town until the next tour bus arrives in the morning.
Geist (2014)
Crazy Uncle Scott has died, leaving you literally half of his will. (Not half his geekgold, half his will.) You must now find the second half from his old estate, haunted Alden Manor! And leave your Smartphone at home!
Generic Title (2001)
In this short short story, you play as J. Alfred Prufrock. Your creator, T. S. Eliot, wants you to fetch a thousand litres of tea so people will stay awake longer, read more of his poetry, and make him richer.
Genie (2002)
In this incomplete game, you play as a genie. Soon, your new Master will open your bottle and you will need to grant his first wish: to bring him another drink because he's not drunk enough.
Germania (2008)
You play as a Roman soldier. Your task is to explore a cave for the source of a reported disturbance — maybe it's wild animals, maybe it's Germanic tribe activity — then report back to the camp centurion.
Getting to Know the General (2001)
In this game, you play as a Neil Gaiman lookalike, and you're in yet another mess. You tried to save money by flying to Atlanta inside a large suitcase, but instead, you ended up in Alexander the Great's room at the Hilton Buenos Aires. The Macedonian general is rather upset to find you inside what he thinks is his suitcase.
Ghost Riders of El Diablo (1992)
You stand in the old west, a noose around your neck. The ghost riders stare at you with dead eyes. You must find a way to escape, and lift the Indian curse that forces the dead to ride at midnight. Only then can you awake from your most terrifying nightmare.
The Ghost Ship (2015)
In this small game, you play as Pierce, one of the newly dead after your fall down the lighthouse stairs. You wake in a cell of a ghost ship. It's disgusting, decaying, and crewed by zombies. Escape before any of them can kill you again!
Ghost Train (2003)
This game begins on Christmas Eve, 1935, on a train trip home from London to Torquay with your best friend Ingrid. Tragically, the train crashes! — and you are the sole survivor — or are you? When you seek help by telephone, you hear Ingrid's voice begging you to help her! Eerier still, you soon discover a secret railway track, an abandoned train station, and a one-way ghost train to St Gorgon's Cemetery.
Ghosterington Night (2012)
In this short horror-filled treasure hunt, you play as Jubilee Grief, the famous adventurer. Every Samhain night, for three hours before midnight, a manor materializes atop of a lonely cliff. Inside the danger-filled home are hidden the four last and worst poems that Vigilance Ghosterington ever wrote. Those horrible poems are now worth millions and you're going to find them.
Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Cardinal Chang (2006)
In this game, you play as "Cardinal Chang", an assassin for hire. Soon after the game begins, you are hired to murder Colonel Arthur Trapping. You are told he is an ambitious fool, a louse, and the brother-in-law of Henry Xonck, the wealthy arms manufacturer.
Gleaming the Verb (2009)
In this very short one-room game, you play as someone abducted to solve a series of related word puzzles.
Glik I: Undead Menace (2011)
In this RPG-style game, it's 600 years after the Cataclysm, when the Ancients used horrible weapons. Much knowledge was lost, but artifacts remain. You style yourself as an archaeologist. The cursed land of Glik is rumored to have many terrible beasts but also great wealth. You mean to claim that treasure for yourself. In part one, you explore caves inhabited by the undead and ruled by a Lich.
Glossary (2002)
In this tiny game, you play as the minor yet fun-loving goddess Glossary. Some other deity has sent you a threatening e-mail anonymously, so you better find out who and CLEAN THEIR CLOCK!
Glowgrass (1997)
You play as a xenohistorian on an expedition. You've been dropped (more literally than you planned) by a dropship over the ground of the Ancients. Your equipment was scattered and the dropship crashed. Now it's just you, your wits, and the Ancients to help you find a way home.
Gnu in the Zoo (2011, 2016)
In this game, you play as a gnu in a zoo. You wake up in the middle of the night and discover that the gate to the gnu enclosure was left unlocked. The thought of exploring the zoo is thrilling. Is tonight the night you escape from the zoo?
Go West (2011)
In this small surreal game, your goal is to GO WEST. Or... is it?
The Golden Fleece (1989-1996)
In this huge game, it begins with a challenge. Hermes asserts that he can find a mortal that Zeus would proudly call "Brother". Zeus suggests the mortal must return The Fleece to him, a test worthy of any God. You are that mortal. You begin in a dusty room with a lamp.
Goldilocks is a FOX! (2002)
In this game, you play as Goldilocks, a nineteen-year old blonde bombshell who, after a crazy party, took a bad shortcut and you're now stuck in the enchanted forest with no obvious way out. Also, you could really use some food and somewhere to sleep off this hangover.
Gone Out for Gruyère (2019)
In this surreal game, your girlfriend Natalie has asked you to buy some gruyère, but you're barely out the door when a vortex scoops you up and into a room with shadowy exits in every direction. And before you can escape through the brightly-lit hole in the floor, it's promptly plugged by a massive wheel of gruyère cheese who begins to insult you at every turn! How will you get out of this one?
A Good Breakfast (1997)
In this small game, you wake up late to the sound of the mail arriving. You remember last night's party; thankfully, you don't have a hangover. But you're positively starving! Get something to eat, and soon!
Good For Nothing (2017)
In this very short intro to a story, you play as a woman who wakes in a humid, run down shack. Do you follow the buzzing to your left, or follow the acrid smell to your right?
Goodbye Cruel Squirrel (2017)
In this game, you play as a gray squirrel. Winter is coming and your gray tribe is starving. To save your tribe, you volunteer to bring a huge supply of acorns from the red squirrel tribe's hoard in the Finchsters' yard.
Goodbye Doggy World (1997)
In this incomplete game, you are visiting a spooky pet graveyard featuring wandering fog, a crypt, three tombstones, sn old oak tree, and a gate. Unfortunately, you can't really accomplish anything but explore as best you can.
Got Toast? (2000)
In this fantasy game, you play as a broke guy who had a disappointing birthday. Instead of cash, all you got was an old toaster from your eccentric great great grandmother. You were hoping for money so you could make a homemade breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, and syrup for your girlfriend as you promised.
Gourmet Gaffe (2011)
In this one-room joke game, you play as the inventor of the back scratcher. The Queen of France is pleased with you until you ask for ketchup at her dining table. Sacré bleu! Now you must escape her dungeon before you're thrown to the mimes!
The Grade 3 Parallax (2001)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as an eight year-old in Mrs. King's third grade classroom. Hope you've been paying attention because Mrs. King is going to ask you what's the answer to the first question.
The Grand Tour (2019)
In this tiny demo game, you play as a crewmember of the Thaleia. You are currently locked in your stateroom with Robutler as the ship prepares to jump into hyperspace.
Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg (2021)
In this delightful puzzlebox game, you play as someone who's managed to cuff their hands behind their back. You were trying a magician's trick and it didn't work. There is no key, but you do have your cousin's "Remarkable Egg" thst he brags does all sorts of things. Maybe it can pick locks too and save you?
Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg (2021)
In this delightful puzzlebox game, you play as someone who's managed to cuff their hands behind their back. You were trying a magician's trick and it didn't work. There is no key, but you do have your cousin's "Remarkable Egg" thst he brags does all sorts of things. Maybe it can pick locks too and save you?
Grayscale (2001)
You play as a friend of the author, Daniel Freas, who has programmed a house in virtual reality. You have no particular goal except to explore the house and eventually leave the simulation.
The Great Ritual (1999)
You play as a young Masai warrior armed with a spear. You have been ordered by the elders to find a stolen herd of cattle and a missing herder. After twelve hours of tracking footprints, you hope you find something soon.
Great Zimbabwe (2003)
In this small game, you and Professor Hijinx have come to Great Zimbabwe to find the Couched Brazillian Jaguar. Oh, and try not to get killed by Dr DeMago's evil henchmen while finding it.
The Green Mountains (2011)
In this short puzzleless game, you play as someone who wakes up on a mountain. You have no memories, but a nearby letter tells you to go to the Green Mountains. You might as well try to do that. There's not much else you can do.
Grooverland (2021)
In this large fantasy puzzle game based on the works of Chandler Groover, you play as Lily Lee. It's your 11th birthday and you're the Queen of Grooverland for a day! The amusement park has set up several surprises just for you, and they've also given you a quest: find all the pieces of your regalia before sunset for your coronation in the Queen's Castle. The Mirrored Queen and the Scarlet Empress are waiting for you.
Grubbyville (2016)
In this incomplete game, you play as Max Herdesh, a high school student who wants to be valedictorian. (Your Pop is even more keen on the idea.) Unfortunately, Harley Drotz got into honors Ceramics for his fine art elective which will push him into the lead by year's end. To best him, you'll have to get into the Art Appreciation Independent Study.
Grue (2017)
In this tiny adventure, you play as a grue, lurking in your lair. It is pitch black. Your goal is simple: eat a tasty adventurer.
Gun Mute (2008)
In this sci-fi western, you play as Mute Lawson. To quote the game:
Sheriff Clayton has Elias. He's hanging him at noon. It looks like you're going to have to shoot some people.
Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets (2017)
In this game set in the 1920s, you play as Lil' Ragamuffin, the toughest urchin in Garbagetown DC. You're enjoying a roasted shoe deep in the forest with your rat pal, Percy, when a stranger named T.I. Urge gives you a golden ticket for his Carnival of Regrets where you can eat all the food you want. Percy has some doubts about all this, but you figure it can't hurt to check the place out.
Guttersnipe: St. Hesper's Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous (2017)
In this game set in the 1920s, you again play as Lil' Ragamuffin, the toughest urchin in Garbagetown DC. Recently, you were nabbed by dozens of coppers and corked into this asylum run by Dr. Belladonna Caligazzi. She intends to turn you into a good little girl, but nuts to that! You're going to escape this hoosegow and become Public Enemy Number One!
Guttersnipe: The Baleful Backwash (2018)
In this game, you once again play as Lil' Ragamuffin, the toughest street urchin in depression-era Garbagetown DC. You were eating old shoes from the Macaroni Family's garbage cans, as any urchin is wont to do, but then you were caught by Tony and his goons who think you're playin' kid detective for the fuzz! Cripes! So now you need to escape their speakeasy and rescue your rat pal, Percy, before they throw him in the rattin' pit to fight Jocko, the champion ferret!
Hallowe'en (2000)
You play as a kid on Hallowe'en night, returning home with your bag of treats and a rain-soaked costume. You turn on the TV and drop into the armchair, exhausted. Now it's time to see how well you did trick-or-treating.
Hallway (2003)
In this incomplete barely-begun game, you play as Gallie Atty, formerly the deadliest member of the Black Squad and currently on the run from the General Council. Your goal is to get into the Safe Room, get the Big Jewel, then get out of the compound with it and your life. (Unfortunately, you can't do anything but look at yourself and the goons in the hallway.)
Halothane (1999)
In this rambling game, you begin as Harold Banks, a failed sci-fi author. Your second novel is so bad, you throw its manuscript away. However, your words and ideas have shaped another dimension into existence! Mysterious characters will pull you into your not-so-fictional world, guiding you to fix the chaos you've unwittingly released. Assuming, of course, that this isn't just a grandiose delusion caused by an anaesthetic called Halothane.
Hamlet: The Text Adventure (2003)
In this comedic retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, you play as that angsty teen, Hamlet himself, and your main goal is to avenge the death of your father. Expect a fast-and-loose blend of Shakespearean references, modern pop culture references, and text adventure puzzles. We're just having fun, eh?
The Hand That Rocks The Pumpkin (1998)
You play as someone who moved to New York City a month ago. It's a shame Katherine chose to stay behind, because thanks to your online friend Miseri, you've got an invitation to go to Mr DeMause's Halloween Masque tonight, but he failed to give you directions. And it's a pea-souper outside too.
Hangar 22 (2011)
You play as an unemployed computer programmer who needs a job and some food, but not necessarily in that order. You wouldn't say no to some tacos. But will you say no to a job at Hangar 22?
Hank Buzzcrack Has A Job To Do, God Damn It (2001)
In this very short game, you play as Hank Buzzcrack, a professional thief. You have two missions: steal a gold mask from one museum then steal a golden banana from another museum.
Happy Ever After (2000)
In this alchemy-driven game, you play as a young man. To heal your broken heart after your girl dumped you, you agree to look after your Uncle Steve's isolated museum while he goes on vacation. Improbably, the secrets hidden there will lead you to finding your one true love and living happy ever after.
The hat metapuzzle of IF Comp 2011 (2011)
This metapuzzle was hidden in four games entered in IF Comp 2011: Cold Iron by Andrew Plotkin, Last Day of Summer by Doug Orleans, The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M by Michael D. Hilborn, and Playing Games by Kevin Jackson-Mead. The player was meant to notice a recurring character, a man in a strange hat in all four games, and deduce that this was intentional and that the games had a secret puzzle between them.
Haunted House (2011)
In this game, I play as a teenager named Mike. Today, I can't clearly remember what the rumours said about the old McDaniel Mansion. Something about monsters in the basement? But one summer day, for lack of anything better to do, me and my improbable friends, Doc and Rose, decided to explore the place, abandoned for decades and as isolated from the rest of our boring village as it was from the rest of the world.
Haunted P (2017)
In this short sorry excuse for a game, you play as PLAYER, an enby in a hat, shades, and tie. Bilbert (who is dressed the same way) wants you to go inside him and heal him using SCIENCE and MAGICK.
The Haunting of Corbitt House (2023)
In this game set in Baltimore, you play as the detective. A dark-haired beauty walks into your office with a case: she thinks her inherited tenement house may be haunted. You need the rent money, so you agree to investigate.
Headless, Hapless (2013)
In this small game, you play as a ghost. You've had a great night freaking people out with your headless horseman act, but you're ready to go home now. Just one problem: you've lost your head.
Health Inspector (2000)
You play as a health inspector who loves their job. Today, you're at a Chinese restaurant called Ho Lee Chow and you can't wait to see what violations you can uncover here.
Heated (2010)
In this frustrating slice of life, you wake up to the blaring of your alarm clock. But don't get heated! Your future is at stake! Can you get to work on time, looking good, smelling good, and with a cool head? If you fail, you could lose your job. But success could mean a raise or even a promotion!
Heezy Park (2015)
In this short chase game, you're a trick-or-treater whose bag of candy was just stolen by that bully Half Nelson. He's running south into Heezy Park. He's bigger and faster than you, but he is carrying a lot of candy. Maybe you can catch up?
Help! My Vacuum Cleaner Is Broken! (2001)
Today is the day you bring your antique vacuum cleaner to the Antiques Roadshow. You are supposed to be fifth! But you dropped it! It's broken! And it's all your fault! And now you're going to be late! Run! No, I mean it, run!
Hercules! (2021)
In this adventure game, you play as the demigod Hercules. You want to be a hero, but the Gods won't take you seriously because of your scrawniness, allergies, and numerous phobias. Fortunately, your cousin Eurystheus has given you a list of ten chores to prove yourself with. How hard could this list be?
Here Be Dragons!!! (2000)
In this minimalistic satire, you play as a generic adventurer in a standard fantasy setting. If you can find and defeat the dragon, you'll be able to claim its treasure!
Hero, Inc Part 1: Calling All Heroes (1997)
You play as J. Random Hero, Fairhaven's newest hero if you answer the call to duty from Hero, Inc. by entering their contest and performing several feats of heroism. Don't wait! Enter the contest now and you may win their Grand Prize!
Hey, I'm Supposed to be Free Range (1998)
In this small one-puzzle game, you play as a chicken who crosses the road everyday, and that's the way you like it. But today, someone's put up a bunch of traffic cones. Well, that's not going to stop you, is it?
Hey, Jingo! (2002)
You play as Alain Quincy, man of leisure and secret agent for the Ministry of Colonial Finance, The Green Coast. Helzog has instructed you to secretly steal a mask from General Marchgrave's office in the Palace and return the mask to him.
The Hidden King's Tomb (2022)
In this small adventure, you're exploring the Hidden King's Tomb, searching for treasure. Unfortunately, your adventuring partner pushed you into the sinkhole "entrance", so you're also searching for a way to escape.
Hidden Verbiage (2018)
In this short wordplay game, you play as a someone sent by King Azaz to restore the cities of Reality and Illusion. Here, between the two cities, illusions are hiding things you need to FIND, and somehow reshaping a thing's absence into something else that doesn't quite belong. For example, why is a troll threatening to give you ab lace?
Hide a pachyderm! (2014)
In this simple and very short one-room joke game, you have six turns to hide your pet elephant before your angry landlord forces his way into your tenement. Good luck!
Highland Chef (2001)
In this pleasant little fetch-quest game, you play as a guest assistant chef to Chef Duncan Alexander. He has a show on the Cooking Channel, and it's filmed in his own cottage. Find a turnip, an onion, and some potatoes for tonight's show.
Hippo on Elm Street (2015)
In this Hallowe'en game, you play as a house hippo that lives underneath the sofa. You want to investigate some scary sounds and get yourself a snack before returning back to your comfortable nest of stolen socks.
His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook (2023)
In this small game, you play as Sheryl Swift, Sub-Lieutenant of the Human Resources Command of His Majesty Smurg IV, the Decisive's Royal Space Navy. It's after hours, but you can't go home until you find all eight chapters of the service handbook that your subordinates were working on, finished or not.
History Repeating (2005)
You play an adult who, in the middle of a boring day at the office, suddenly wakes up as their teenage self in their grade 12 math classroom! Your science teacher, Mr. Hopkins, brought you back in time with his time machine to prove a point. Can you change your own past and avoid a future of drudgery and loneliness—or will history repeat itself?
A Hobbit Trek (2013)
In this game set in Middle Earth, you play as Daisy Tunnelly, a hobbit. A giant flood swept you away from your home in Bree to the branches of a tree in an unfamiliar land. You stayed in the tree until the waters receded, but now it's time to start the long walk back to Bree. You hope someone can give you directions.
Hollywood Hijinx (1986)
Your Aunt Hildegarde has just died. To inherit everything, you must find ten "treasures" hidden in and around Hildebud, the Hollywood estate she shared with your Uncle Buddy, the famous producer of several questionable shlock movies. But you only have one night to do it, or one of their other nieces and nephews will get their chances. Good luck!
The Holy Grail (1989-1996)
In this large adventure game, you play as an young noviciate given a difficult and dangerous task: to find and return the Holy Grail to the arch mage. You begin in a long-abandoned castle with nothing but a brass lamp and your wits.
HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE (2014)
In this game, you are playing as Morgen Santamore, a human instructor in robot decorum at the Mathedral of the Heavenly Code High School. Today, the Robopope, Pope Fortran itself, is visiting this very building complex. You're going to find it and then kiss its papal ring.
Homecoming (2014)
In this humorous game, you play as the newly-awakened AI of a colony ship orbiting Gliese 581 G. You soon learn that the ship is heavily damaged, the cargo bays are empty, everyone is in cryogenic storage, and the planet has been rejected for colonization. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to take everyone safely back to Earth, which is 22 light years away.
Homeland (2019)
In this introduction to a game, you play as a homeowner whose morning is disturbed by a yet another small explosion next door. Meanwhile, a TV news report informs you that as many as five people are missing. You don't know anything about that, but you can at least find out what your neighbour's up to.
Homeless Harry (2009)
In this small disgusting game, you are using a hobo simulator machine to experience life as Homeless Harry, a hobo who lives in a cardboard box in an underpass. Harry wants to cornhole his friend, Toothless Willy, but Willy's kind of mean without his Lysol.
Honk! (2023)
In this comedy game, you play as Lola, the circus's greatest and only clown. Your skills include pie-throwing, balloon-animal-making, and nose-honking. The Ringmaster whimpers about a ghost, a Phantom sabotaging the acts. You tell him you'll sort the Phantom out while he deals with the paperwork.
The Horror of Rylvania (1993, 1996)
You play as an American college student touring Europe with your friend, Carolyn. In the country of Rylvania, Carolyn is viciously attacked by wolves and is bleeding to death; you must find help for her immediately. But your troubles only get worse when later, you are attacked and become a vampire!
The Horste (2017)
In this short HBO Westworld fanfic, you play as a robot horse (a "horste") named Alba. You start your day in the stables with Francis the mule. Dolores should be arriving soon.
The Hose (2000)
You play as Lars, a lab flunky who has the task of preparing the Special Surprise to honor the great inventor Chuck Schmendiman at a banquet. You rather envy and resent Schmendrick and have your own ideas what sort of surprise you'd really like to give him.
The House (2003)
In this small escape game, you wake up with a headache in the mysterious Gralow family's house. How much were you drinking? And did you come in through the fireplace? Ugh. Better get out of here fast.
The House (2007)
In this small text adventure, you play as someone who enters an abandoned house on a whim, only to be trapped inside by a restless spirit. Can you figure out what the spirit wants and banish him?
The House of Mystery (2018)
In this bizarre and whimsical game, you play as someone told to investigate a puzzle-filled house and its missing owner. Armed only with a map of the house and a warning about traps, you begin your quest in the living room.
The House on Sycamore Lane (2019)
In this old-school haunted house game, you play as kid. You were on your way home from school when the local bully and his pit bull chased you until you had no choice but to enter the spooky haunted house on Sycamore Lane. People have died in here! The bully blocks up the way you got in, and all the other windows and outer doors are boarded up, so how are you going to get out?
How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down? (2001)
In this tribute game to Douglas Adams, you play as someone at an asylum. There's a sandy sea-shore to the south, and a curious inside-out house to the north. It's a beautiful day.
How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin (2023)
In this game, you play as the little girl now known as Ebenezabeth. You intend to practice your newly-discovered ability to transport yourself to other places and times by looking at a fire. Your new papa, Ebenezer Scrooge, lights the fireplace, a wax candle, and an oil lamp for you. He points out the streetlamp outside the window is also a flame, so that's four fires for you to practice with.
How the Little Match Girl Met the Queen of Vampires (2023)
Once again, you play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, the little match girl who transports herself to other places and times just by looking at fire. This story begins in the clouds. The King of Birds has been transfigured into a wet snail, and you must disenchant him with a magic whistle. Which melody will you play?
How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors (2016)
You play as someone really determined to win the Rock-Paper-Scissors Competition at your school. You're so good at it, you can even defeat people all over campus who inadvertently make one of the hand shapes!
Hypnotist of Ladies (2012)
In this small one-note game, you play as the Hypnotist of Ladies. Your plan is to hypnotize all the ladies.
I don't remember why this game is called "Onion" (1999)
In this short silly game, you play as someone on Mars visiting the pretend Eiffel Tower that aliens built in the past. Features Nostradamus and a hose-pipe and not much else.
I Must Play (2004)
In this homage to classic arcade games, you play as a kid in a video arcade, but after hours since the older boys wouldn't let you use the machines during the day. Another young boy, Eric, is here too. Can you win at every game in the building and take over Eric's top spot on the highscore board?
I Never Promised You A Nose Guard (1999)
After drinking nine Singapore Slings at a bar, you've somehow woken up in a cheerleading outfit on the HMS Recalcitrant, a ship that smells of pickles. Sure, you wanted to go to Bora-Bora, but where is this ship going?
I pressed on, being chased by a stapler with my name on it. (2013)
In this extremely short and on-the-rails story based on quotes from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, you play as an office worker named Rick. Papers are flying everywhere, and a stapler is chasing you.
I Went to the WTO Ministerial Conference and All I Got Was This Souvenir Delegate From Mauritius (2000)
You play as a scruffy anarchist attending the WTO Ministerial Conference in Seattle. Look around a bit and see what's happening.
Ibo (2012)
In this very sparse and very short one-room story, you play as someone tired and wet from the rain, waiting for their tea at a coffee house. You missed seeing the boy approach you. He said something.
Ice House of Horrors (2013)
In this very short horror story, you play as an injured walleye, lured and caught by monsters who throw you onto a pile of corpses. Your options are extremely limited. You can't breathe. And it's so cold here. What can you do to survive?
Identity Thief (2002)
In this game, you play as a thief who uses cyber implants to steal identities and commit crimes. A "Mr. Johnson" hired you to steal a datachip from Senator Barbara Tarlette's mansion, but things went south when she woke up and stabbed you. You managed to kill her, but now you're seriously bleeding and you haven't found the datachip yet.
IF Aquarium (2010)
In this short and flawed artpiece, you play as anyone visiting an aquarium. You begin in a glass tunnel, with sharks swimming on the other side of the glass. The exits are east and west, and there's a closed trap door above you.
IF Progressive One (2009)
This chaotic game was written by six authors sequentially, each author only adding to the game as written so far. It all begins with you as a kindergarten teacher in your classroom after all the kids have gone home. You're about to clean up their horrific mess when a gaudy balloon floats in through the window and stops to hover right in front of your face.
Igor's Quest (2020)
In this minimalist wordplay game where all commands and responses are only two words or less, you play as Doctor Frankenstein's assistant, Igor. He orders you find a head, hair, eyes, ears, a body, arms, hands, legs, and feet and bring them to his laboratory.
Illuminismo Iniziato (2018)
In this game, you once again play as Ninario's apprentice from another world. Ninny suspects that Renaldo, evil wizard in hiding, is up to something and asks you to fetch his interplanar rift analyser from his safety deposit box back in Vechlee. The key, uh, it must be in the robes he sent to the cleaners. He hands you a laundry claim ticket and a snow globe then shoves you out the door before you can ask a single question.
The Impossible Bottle (2020)
In this amusing but very puzzling game, you play as 6-year-old Emma Small. Dad's making dinner and wants you to pick up your toys and find some things for the table before the Taylors arrive. But when you go to fetch the tablecloth, you instead find a handkerchief. What's going on?
Impossible Stairs (2022)
In this puzzling game, you play as CJ, a young woman at her family home who gets a list of chores in an odd way. Did you forget that you have spatio-temporal disjunction? That is, whenever you go upstairs, you go 20 years into the future, and whenever you go downstairs, you go back 20 years into the past, aging or de-aging as appropriate.
In a Manor of Speaking (2012)
In this game about wordplay, you've just crashlanded your Sopwith Camel on the island of Calembour in the Bermuda Triangle. Your goals are to explore this mysterious (and hopefully saucy) island, to deliver your bag to Lord Handsome, and to find a way home.
In a Tomb with a Donkey (2023)
In this small fantasy game, you play as Evidence Sweet, a young witch fleeing from the pharaoh's palace on a stolen donkey. As you race across the desert, you remember how you just wanted to win the Annual Spellcasting Competition, but your arch-rival Snackajack blasted you to ancient Egypt and scattered your spells. Evade your pursuers, find your spells, and return to your own time.
In Search of Velocitas fictus (2007)
In this short story, you play as a young American woman trying to find out what happened to the North American Velocitas fictus. They haven't been seen at all in 2007. Your search has brought you here to the Cour Napoleon at the Louvre, to rendezvous with Professeur LeFou.
CAUTION: This story contains the beginnings of an unwanted sexual assault.
In The House of Professor Evil: The HAM HOUSE (2006-2008)
In this small silly game, you play as someone who wants to escape the house of Professor Evil, who now lies dead on the floor. He planned to make a ham rule the universe, but forget about him. You crave ham. How long has it been since you ate a really good ham?
In the Navy! (2004)
In this brutal parody, you play as the captain of an Iowa-class battleship, the USS Stevedore, currently in the Persian Gulf to support the troops in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Your every weapon is loaded and ready to fire.
CAUTION: The game's protagonist is a racist, a bigot, a sadist, and a homophobe. The game contains over-the-top violence, a huge amount of homoerotic innuendo, and intentionally bad room descriptions.in the skin of a lion quest: caravaggio's journey (2012)
This story is an incomplete, buggy, and surreal adaptation of part of the novel In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje. In this story, you play as a thief named Caravaggio who needs to escape from the roof of a jail.
In The Spotlight (1998)
In this tiny one-room puzzler, you are someone whose vision fades while at the computer. The remaining light condenses into a spotlight high above you. All you can see are two dangling strings, a pair of heavy scissors, a wad of cotton, and a matchbook.
The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Too! (2000)
In this small one-room game, you play as a woman whose hair spray made you shrink smaller and smaller! Thanks to the family parrot, you're now on the kitchen bench beside a now-huge toaster. Your only hope of rescue is the phone on the other side of an impassable sink full of dishes and green water.
Indigo (2011)
In this short game based on the story of Rapunzel, you play as a woman who was imprisoned in this tower years ago by a witch. Your solitude has developed your skills, but you are now ready to leave. Take your time.
Inevitable (2003)
You play as Commander Tanur, a pilot ordered to provide escort to the Domin Ambassador during his visit to the site of a massacre, a massacre you witnessed twenty years ago. Bad enough to babysit a man you'd rather see dead, but then his shuttle damages your plane during takeoff. Now you've stuck here with your memories, exploring the towers and the ziggurat, towards a fate that may well be inevitable.
Inevitable (2017)
In this short one-room escape game, you play as a mad scientist who wants to be a supervillian. You've just invented a time scryer that can see the future, but your first test shows an intruder killing you! Can you escape your fate?
Infiltration on Io (2001)
In this short game, you play as a secret agent sent from Earth to the Plexon colony on Jupiter's moon, Io. An intelligence agent will meet you at the waste port to give you your mission.
Inform School (1999)
In this educational game, you are a student learning the Inform 6 programming language, using a simplified version called Inf. Complete 27 programming tasks; each task has detailed help and a worked example in its classroom. When you're ready, take the final exam to win.
An Informal Time (2010)
In this small, surreal, buggy experiment, you play as a self-aware protagonist in a barely-begun adventure game. You soon fall out of the game into Inform's compass, make your way through the world model, and confront the parser itself.
Insanity Cubed (1999)
In this one-room game, after a random introduction (involving yoga, drunkenness, virtual reality, etc.), you find yourself in a small white room and a floating cube with nine mixed-up colored squares on each face. (Yes, you're solving a Rubik's Cube using a text interface.)
Inside the Facility (2016)
In this game, you play as someone eager to explore THE FACILITY, a place filled with research labs and maybe even some secret stuff. Your friend Mike bet you $20 that you couldn't even visit half of the Facility because of all the security. You took that bet, of course.
Note that this game uses a very limited set of commands. There's no EXAMINE or TAKE!
Inside Woman (2009)
In this large espionage game, you will be pretending to be Alice Wei Ling, a sewer worker migrating from Shanghai to the Utopia Techologies Arcology, a city-sized edifice that no one leaves from. But you're really a colonel and a spy. Bai Lihong Enterprises wants to know why Utopia is kidnapping scientists and you will be their inside woman to find out.
Inspiration (2001)
In this teensy tiny game, you play as a writer who's only written one chapter for their novel set in nitty-gritty New Orleans. Your publisher wants all twenty chapters in his hands first thing tomorrow, but you have no inspiration.
Inspiration! (2011)
In this small slice-of-life game, you are a new homeowner trying to write an interactive fiction game, but you lack inspiration. Walk around your barely-furnished new home and search for inspiration. When you're ready, return to your office to write your game.
Interactive Fiction Player (2013)
In this short joke of a game, you play as an interactive fiction player who gets out of bed and goes to their office to play a game. In this short joke of a game, you play as an interactive fiction player who gets out of bed and goes to their office to play a game. In this short joke of a game,...
Interface (2009)
You play as a young boy whose mind is trapped in a pyramid-shaped robot body. Your uncle Floyd, an electronics genius, invited you to his home to be the first person to try out his latest invention. But something went wrong. Uncle Floyd orders his scrawny assistant, Gilby, to take you home and fix everything. But Gilby is planning to quit and just leave you in his house like this! How can you escape your predicament?
Internal Documents: A Memo (2003)
In this odd, large, and sparsely-implemented game, you play as a civil servant sent by the incumbent governor to the tiny township of Sebastian to examine the records of the John B. Holden estate. There's been far too many allegations about bribes and extortion in the current election cycle and it's up to you to exercise due diligence and determine the truth.
Interstellar Pizza Brigade (2016)
In this small game, you play as Anne Walken, a bored Emergencies Specialist on the Centennial Crow. Your starship's new mission is to deliver a pizza to Earth in the year 1990. Sounds easy enough, and if there are any problems, you'll deal with them.
Into That Good Night (2001)
In this game dedicated to the memory of Douglas Adams, you play as a holistic detective who believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Your client, Mrs Antrobus, has hired you to find her husband. Amusingly, you find him in a waiting room in the afterlife.
Intro to A Fool's Rescue (2020)
In this strange game, you play as a 17-year-old named Liam, rudely woken out of bed by his sort-of-friend Toby (except he prefers to be called Drake). He tells you that they took Billy hostage and to meet him in the driveway. Who's THEY? Who's Billy? What hijinks is Toby getting you into this time?
Intro to Implements of the Arcane (2018)
In this game, you play as an arcanist. After a bandit attack, you are left with only a healing circlet and your clothes. You want to find implements of the arcane to not only to restore your losses, but also, if possible, to restore arcanism itself from the lows it has fallen to.
Intro to Jabberwocky (2004)
In this game, based on the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky", you play as a farmer's child, sent out before brillig to deal with the family's animals. You also find a tablet with a pattern of lines and letters; as you complete your chores, the blank lines of the tablet are replaced with words, forming the first stanza of the poem.
Intro to The Devil's Music (2019)
In this tricky introduction to an incomplete game, you play as the Devil. You've traveled to Earth to collect the soul of Ezra Mayhew. You carry his contract, recorded in bile and blood, and his final payment is now due.
The Invisible Argonaut (2003)
In this tiny game, you play as one of the Argonauts, currently in the land of the Bebrycians. For some reason, King Amycus won't let anyone leave his island until one of you spars with him in the boxing ring and somehow you got elected to fight him.
The Island (2013)
In this whimsical game, you play as a resident of the island. Walk around in nothing but a bathing suit, swim, and eat snacks. It's mostly a slice of life exploration game with some fantasy bits sprinkled in. But if you're very diligent indeed, you can eventually acquire four elemental items and use them to free the spirit of Hope!
Islands Far Away (2010)
In this small juvenile game, you play as someone struggling to write a computer game with an islands theme. If only you could get rid of your distractions and focus, maybe, just maybe you can write a game so awesome, it'll be your ticket to fame, fortune, and your own island far far away.
Content warning: masturbation and dog excrement.
The Isle of Statues (2012)
In this small game, you are the second-in-command of the "Curiosity", a merchant liner. The ship has anchored to the west of a small remote island to replenish its supply of fresh water. The captain orders you and the boatswain to go complete this task, and if you're not back on board by 6 o'clock, the ship will leave without you.
J'dal (2012)
In this adventure game, you play as a young black woman named J'dal, born on the other side of the sunset. Everyone else here is white. You, Dad (who adopted you years ago), the experimenter Stolas (who Dad met when turnside), and the thug Roderick have been hired to find an artifact hidden in the mine west of town. They need you for your superior night vision.
Jack's Adventures (1998)
In this extremely short one-room demo game, you play as Jack Winklebee, an aspiring hero in Fairyland. You've traded your cow for some magic beans, a trowel, and a magic watering can. Now it's time to find out what these magic beans do.
Jacks or Better to Murder, Aces to Win (1999)
In this short game of intrigue, you play as the venerable A, the highest-ranking member of your religion's Hierarchy. During a formal service at a remote holding, you sense a conspiracy to eliminate you is underfoot, and you note that the speaker is rambling, deliberately delaying the service's natural end. You must act, without breaking protocol, or you'll likely soon be dead.
jason finds fleece (2003)
In this IF abuse modeled after robot finds kitten, you play as Jason of the Argonauts, looking for the Golden Fleece. Jason is represented as a # symbol which you'll manuever around the screen using your arrow keys.
Jeenin Tonn-nx (2001)
In this one-room tribute to Douglas Adams, you play as someone at a pub. The bartender tells you he can make an alcoholic beverage that you eat instead of drink. It's called a Jeenin Tonn-nx.
Jesse Stavro's Doorway (2014)
You play as Jordan Hickey, a young man who uses unstable Doors and Keys to travel in time and space. People like yourself are called Tourists. You're looking for your friend, Jesse Stavro, who's been on the run from more than one government agency in the last year. He might be hiding amongst the potheads in the faded yellow house.
Jewel of Knowledge (1999)
You're a spelunker on a dangerous expedition to find the fabled Jewel of Knowledge. The Druids of Amylya told you that whoever possesses the jewel can know any fact, can solve any problem. But Ariana has already died, and Jacob soon follows her. And now it's just you alone, deep underground, searching for the lairs of three ancient dragons, and hoping you can prevail where so many others have fallen.
Jimin, Ari, and Shush (2023)
In this very incomplete game, you play as a boy named Jimin. Your best friends are a girl named Ari and quiet boy named Shush. Your dad (Felix) and Shush's mom (Saucedo) want you three to go on an adventure to the far-off Ice Palace to obtain an infiniheat oven for Saucedo's bakery.
Jobs for Antioch! (2004)
In this tiny game, you play as Bohemond, prince of Antioch. The principality has fallen upon hard times with the decline of the time tourism and liquid leather industries. You do have an awful lot of cows, though, and somehow, you'll use them to create new jobs for Antioch.
John's Fire Witch (1995)
You play as a friend of John Baker. He didn't show up for a pizza-and-beer night, so you go to his place, let yourself in, and wait overnight for him but he's still missing. Searching his place, you learn there's a new hole in his basement and that he's been dreaming of a fire witch trapped by an ice wizard. Could John really have gone down into that hole to rescue his fire witch?
Jon Doe - Wildcard Nucleus (2019)
In this homage to James Bond, you play as Jon Doe, an MI5 operative. Your new assignment is to investigate the suspicious death of Edulard, an elderly scientist at Wildcard Inc and a secret informant. Your leads are the scarred and monocle-wearing Adolf von Bolzplatz, who is Wildcard's CEO, and Edulard's beautiful daughter, Valerie, who is engaged to Bolzplatz.
Jonathan Grimshaw: Space Tourist (2006)
You play as Jonathan Grimshaw, an Englishman who just won a golden ticket for thirteen weeks of luxury on board the Earth's first space cruiser, the Cittian. It's a shame the ship hits an asteroid soon after takeoff and you have to escape its jail-like squallor.
Journey from an Islet (2001)
In this small game, you play as an adventurer. You have traveled long and far and have now fallen onto an island in the darkness before dawn. How will you escape from there and continue your journey?
Jump (2001)
In this short disturbing story, you play as a teen named Amanda. You lead a small group of youths who have vowed to suicide, and Michael has gone first, damn it. It was supposed to be you. You were so focused on the result, you never considered how you'd do it.
Content warnings: Murder, suicide, abuse.
Jungle Adventure (2022)
In this old-school-style adventure game that uses lots of ASCII art, you play as someone lost in the jungle after an unexplained plane crash. Your main goals are to survive and escape, but feel free to get some treasure too, if you can.
Junior Arithmancer (2018)
In this game, you play as the Academy's first candidate in Arithmancy. The examining committee quickly gives you your exam materials before translating you into the examination room. There, you will use the provided spells to reproduce the numbers on your number sheet to earn points; completing tasks on your task page will also earn you points. Happy spellcasting and good luck!
Just Get the Treasure (2017)
In this whimsical choice-based game, you play as a warrior questing for the Chalice of Destiny which will save your people from the evil wizard Malvox. A single goblin guards the Chalice. What will you do? And will the narrator question your every decision to the point of absurdity?
Ka (2010)
You play as the shade of a dead Egyptian pharaoh who has just regained awareness, clutching a papyrus scroll: a Book of Songs of Getting Through the Day. From your nested burial shrines and tomb, you will begin your journey through strange worlds until you meet your final judgment with Anubis. Then you can rest.
Katana (2002)
You play as an American tourist visiting Shinobu Palace in Japan hoping to learn more about your ancestor, Matsuo Kaneiji, an infamous samurai executed for treason. Through several puzzles and flashbacks, you (with the gods' help!) will explore his life and correct an ancient wrong.
The Kazooist (2012)
In this silly, whimsical, and thinly-implemented game, you play as someone who is told on their birthday that they are destined to become a great kazooist. So, uh, go through these caves, learn some kazoo songs, and maybe you'll win and maybe you'll die.
Keepsake (2011)
In the oddly-told tale, you play as someone who just shot a man in vengeance. You hear police sirens. You wear a silver medallion and carry a pistol and a paper bag. Time to get back home and make plans.
Kenny Koala's Bushfire Survival Plan (2022)
In this Australian game, you play as Kenny Koala. Bushfire season is approaching, and this year, it's your turn to be the bushfire warden. Complete all the tasks on your list, and ensure that everyone has their bushfire survival plans in place.
Kentish Plover (2020)
In this tiny easy game, you have started a new micro enterprise called Kentish Plover to promote playing of interactive fiction. It's been successful so far, but you want to spread the word further afield.
Kidnapped - On the Sea (2011)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as someone who was assaulted with a drugged napkin held against your nose while you were walking on the beach. You wake in a rowboat with your arms chained behind your back. A key and your kidnapper, Alden, are also there with you. How will you escape?
Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy (1998)
You play as J Random Protagonist, wandering through the foggy streets of New York, looking for Neil deMause's apartment on Halloween night.
Kids Shouldn't Have to Save The World (1999)
You play as a kid who got lost in the woods. You ran in there for cover when an meteor hit the roller coaster at the fair. You have so many questions. Was this an alien attack? Is your family okay? And where did you drop your hot dog?
Kierkegaard's Spider (2012)
In this surreal buggy game, you go to sleep on your new futon and wake in horrible pain to a living room covered in dust and cobwebs. Your entire apartment looks like it's been ransacked and abandoned for years and you appear to be translucent and female. It's not at all clear what you can or should do.
Kii!Wii! (2014)
In this tiny one-room art piece, you're in a grassy park with the cutest creature known to man, a kiwi bird. Relax, interact with your new friend, and enjoy the experience.
A Killer Headache (2012)
In this game, you play as a hungry zombie named Jack with a horrible migraine, and the only remedy is eating brains. Animal brains help, but only human brains are able to quell the agony long enough to get you to your next meal. Unfortunately, the rest of the undead have finished off the human race, leaving you with a killer headache.
Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince (2023)
In this odd sci-fi romance where your options are defined by your inventory, you play as a biomechanical and taciturn killing machine whose solar sail has just crashed on the Eighth Moon of Forsaken Edge. Your love, the Decoy Prince, is dying. Your quarry, the True Third Prince, is somewhere nearby. He will not escape you.
The King and the Crown (2015)
In this short one-room game, you play as a king who simply needs to find his crown and sceptre before he can start his day. But the real gameplay here is discovering all the room's secrets and making all the achievements before you finally sit down on your throne.
King Arthur's Night Out (1999)
In this short light comedy, you play as King Arthur Pendragon of Britain. You want to go out to the pub with Lance and the boys, but Queen Guinevere insists you're staying home. Well, we'll see about that. How will you sneak out of the castle?
The King of Shreds and Patches (2007-2009)
This is a Lovecraftian mystery and horror story. You play as Robert Fletcher, owner and operator of a small printworks in 1603's plague-torn London. A dinner invitation from an old friend marks the beginning of an investigation into a disturbing occult conspiracy involving, amongst others, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare!
The King's Ball (2023)
In this game, you are Benjamin the Baker. The king is hosting a ball. You want to present your plans and a fruit cake to the king in the hope you can get funding for your bakery. Unfortunately, you weren't invited to the ball, so you need to find your own way in.
Knock y Doonee (2007)
In this very linear story, you play as a student in Professor Fee's Viking Studies class. During a solo tour of the northern part of the Isle of Man, you find the ghost of a Viking warrior, Skalla Fee, who could be Professor Fee's twin.
Knot To Be Undone (1999)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as knotter named Weava Knottersdaughter. When Body Adventura hops into your knot shop with his left leg hooked over his neck, it's up to you to untie the knot he's made of himself.
Koan (2002)
You play as a nondescript person standing in an abstract plain. Your task is merely to break the slab in the South Location.
Kook U (1997)
In this silly but very rude game, you're the Network Administrator at Kook University. It's your job to restart the Network whenever it's down, but Dean F. L. Uffy also demands that you stop the USENET Abuse by six terrible students or else you're out of a job!
Content warnings: profanity, drug use, comedic deaths and murder, references to illegal forms of pornography, and horrible poetry.
Koustrea's Contentment (2015)
You play as someone named Koustrea. You have arrived via a one-way blue curtain to a curious house built inside a mountain, where the inhabitants have settled into various spots of singular interest and the long passage of time is reckoned by football seasons. Will the Golden Door ever open? And where will you, Koustrea, find contentment?
Krakatoa Tuna Melt (2002)
In this small game, you play as the current champion of Krakatoa Survivor Challenge. To defend your title, you must assemble a tuna melt sandwich from materials on the island. May the best contestant win!
Labyrinth (2006)
In this puzzle game, you play as Damien Alexander, professor of mathematics. Before waking up in this gaudy and sweet-smelling cubical room, you remember crashing your car while driving with your wife Melanie. My God, is she dead? Where is she? And where are you?
The Lake (1999)
In this one-room game, you play as a stressed museum employee taking a break. You're hoping some time at the lake reading and relaxing will help.
The Landing (1998)
In this one-room puzzleless story set in Hussar, Alberta, Canada, you play as a farmer. On the way home, you noticed one of your hens some distance from the farm just pecking at the road. You're about to pick her up when you're distracted by a glint in the sky.
LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup (2000)
In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia. Before the Second American Civil War, the site was the home of notable historian Thomas Percy and his wife, Lisa, a pioneer in the field of mental imaging. The original plantation owner was Nicholas Duke, who aided the Confederate army in the First American Civil War.
Content warning: Graphic violence, very offensive language.
Last Day (2020)
In this small game, you play as a homeowner in Nelsonville, WA on humanity's last day. A comet will strike the earth today, killing everyone at 12:43 PM. How will you spend your last three hours of life?
Content warning: Suicide.
Last Day of Summer (2011)
You play as young Tolmy Cubbins, trusted for the first time to take a big basket of cranberries into town to sell to the greengrocer. Unfortunately, the bridge to town was swept away by a recent flood. The last day of summer isn't going to go quite the way either you or the greengrocer expected.
Last House on the Block (2020)
In this game, you play as a kid. Rich old Mr. Harrison recently died, and crews from the city will finish cleaning out his house tomorrow. But you're sure there's cash or a treasure hidden inside there; there has to be, and there's no one coming to claim it. You want to find that treasure, and you only have today to do it.
The Last Laugh (2000)
You play as a notoriously handsome hero who's very good at killing dragons, especially the ones from New Jersey. You were just swallowed by a balding, pot-bellied dragon, but luckily, your trusty cigar case is in your back pocket. Who will have the last laugh: the dragon or you?
The Last Sonnet of Marie Antoinette (2001)
You play as a tourist who has lived on the Moon for two thousand years. In the sky above the Seat of Omens, you can see that universal planes are colliding and each star has its twin. You hope to avert this destruction.
Lazy Gods of Earth (2001, 2002)
You play as some guy in a black swimsuit. You're visiting your friend James and his girlfriend Karen at his West Coast beach house, but after a week of doing nothing, you're getting bored. But then you accidentally destroy the world, and it's up to you as the last mortal to convince some lazy gods to restore everything back to the way it was.
Lazy Wizard's Guide to Passing the Very Final and Super Difficult Magical Exam (2022)
In this fantasy game, you play as Bartholomew, a final year student at a magical boarding school. It's time for your final exam, but you were too lazy to study and you've forgotten all your spells. Can you pass your exam anyway?
Learning to Cross (1998)
You play as someone walking through farm country to visit your aunt, and so you stop at a farmhouse hoping you can barter for some food. The farmer offers to have his wife cook up whichever of his chickens you can catch, but the chicken, when caught, has a counteroffer. It's going to teach you how to Cross the road.
Leather (2001)
In this short story, you play as Peter, a traveler currently in Mellila en route to Rome. You've never seen such a dizzying confusion of smells and colors and people. But mostly, you remember an unveiled Arab woman who smiled at you in the bazaar. Tonight, your tour group is hosting a Hallowe'en party on the ship before it leaves tomorrow.
Leatherworld (2001)
You play as the luckless Leatherworld employee who has to work through Halloween evening. And now the power's gone out and there's a weird "mooing" sound somewhere upstairs? Guess you'd better investigate that.
Leaves (1997)
In this rather colourless and linear game, you play as some guy escaping from some complex. The obstacles on your route to freedom are a guard, a fence, a forest, an underground tunnel system, and a river. (Caution: One puzzle is rather tacky and crude.)
LegBreaker 3k! (2000)
In this small surreal game, you really want to read that note at the top of the stairs. Will someone's leg get broken? Very likely.
The Legend of Horse Girl (2022)
In this comedy western, you play as Horse Girl. Normally, you'd be riding the open plains, but that sidewinder, Judge Lazarus Dives, stole your horse! He also wants to own every snake oil well in Texas, so he must be here in Santa Diablo. You're certain of it. You're gonna find that buzzard and settle the score.
The Legend of the Missing Hat (2012)
In this tiny ninja tale, you play as the tiny black ninja that lives under the bed. Visit the other tiny ninjas who live elsewhere in the bedroom. Before you can emcee tonight's talent show, you must find your hat.
The Lesson of the Chicken (1998)
In this small game, you play as Wang Chung, a farmer who once wanted to be a comedian. You're carrying your axe down a deserted highway when you see the chicken and the stump. Destiny calls.
The Lesson of the Tortoise (1997)
You play as Wang Lo, a Chinese farmer. Alas, you shall learn that your wife has been unfaithful and desires your death.
Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: The Text Adventure (2019)
In this text adventure, you play as someone newly dead. But exactly who are you: Sisyphus, Tantalus, Prometheus, Danaids, or Zeno? Everyone gets a different punishment in the afterlife!
Lethe Flow Phoenix: A Flight of Fantasy (1995)
You play as a camper who is awoken by something at midnight on All Hallows' Eve. Investigating, you absentmindedly step off a cliff. In mid-air, before you black out, you are rescued by a presence with wings. Then you wake up in a pleasant grassy field on a sunny day. So... ah... what's going on?
Letters From Home (2000)
This is a game about pangrams, sentences that use every letter of the alphabet. You are an unnamed member of the Angram family visiting the Angram Priory for the last time. You have a couple hours to pick up a few things before the taxi arrives to take you away to the station.
The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M (2011)
You play as Doctor M, or perhaps as his soul, visiting the Everlast Inn, which seems to be a specialized waystation in the afterlife to determine your final fate. In life, Doctor M provided assisted suicide services and was quite the controversial figure. Ultimately, you'll need to decide if M stands for Murder, for Mercy, or for Maybe something else.
Light into Darkness (2016)
You play as a wife and mother awoken at night by... something. Investigating, you somehow end up outside your home and looking in a window where you see a vision of yourself doing something horrible. Is this your future? Why would you do such a thing?
Light Of My Stomach (2011)
This is an unusual story where you play as the primary lightbulb of the John Quincy Adams Gastrodome, but also as Bob Bobkins, competative eater. What secrets is Garry, Bob's opponent in the eating contest, hiding?
The Light: Shelby's Addendum (1995-1996)
You play as Maurice L. Shelby, a laboratory apprentice employed by Commission Research Station 12B. The station is rather important: it houses one of several beacons placed around the world that generate the dimensional field that prevents total disaster. (It's a long story.) Unfortunately, you'll learn that one of the researchers has gone mad and stolen the beacon's phase modulator! The entire planet is doomed unless you can retrieve the modulator and restore the field.
The Lighthouse (2008)
In this short sparse dull game, you play as a person of no particular description. Mr Webster has asked you to take care of his lighthouse, the Havenworth Lighthouse. Your goal is simply to turn on its light.
Limelight (2008)
You play as someone newly-famous. You were getting a haircut at the hair salon in the mall, but a nosey photographer tried to take your picture. Fortunately, the stylist blocked that attempt but there's bound to be others. Now you're trying to escape from the mall without anyone taking your picture.
Limp (1998)
In this small and lackluster pornographic game, you play as a guy who hasn't had an erection in seventeen months. But today you're in a motel with a willing Women [sic], so you better find a way to get it up!
The Lion in Winter (1999)
In this comedic short game, you play as an overweight young man of the Massif tribe. Your dad's left you to watch over his cows, which is bad enough, but now a lion just came into the enclosure and took one away! You better get that cow back and fast or your dad won't let you go to any dances for a hundred years!
Literacy (2001)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as some one who wants to win the robot monkey by dressing up as Gustav Schmidt for Halloween. If you can steal his death mask from the library, your win is assured.
Little Blue Men (1998)
You play as an office worker who would like to be more frosty, but the paperwork is making you steamed. You hate your co-workers. You hate Biedermeyer. And you hate the vending machine too. And Beechnut gum. Everyone hates Beechnut. But your attempts to get even with them all will reveal that there's something really really strange happening in this office. (Caution: Strong language.)
Little Green Robbing Hood (2006)
In this short game that blends Little Red Riding Hood with the legend of Robin Hood, you of course are playing as Little Green Robbing Hood. Your grandmother's fields were torched by Sir Guy of Gisbourne, so you're taking a loaf of bread to her so she doesn't starve.
The Little Match Girl (2019, 2021, 2022)
In this extended fairy tale set on New Year's Eve, you play as a nameless little girl, barefoot and freezing in a lonely corner of town, and clutching the four matches she failed to sell. But when she lights a match for warmth, its wonderful flame shows her... it's like she's there in Paris, France, but as a ghost. Soon, she will have to wake and light a second match.
The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens (2020, 2022, 2023)
Once again, you play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, the little match girl who transports herself to other places and times just by looking at fire and is now a time-traveling assassin. It's New Year's Eve, the anniversary of your adoption-day, but before you can have any cake, the sparrows on the roof hire you to kill an old man whom they describe to you.
The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold (2023)
In this RPG fantasy tale, you again play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, the little match girl who is now a time-traveling assassin-for-hire. Your target is the Snow Queen, a powerful sorceress who uses Shards from the evil Mirror of Belial to control her servants. You dare not face her alone. Find four fellow warriors to join you in your quest. Trounce your foes, level up, and prevail!
The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls (2023)
It's December 1848. You play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, the adopted daughter of Ebenezer Scrooge, and you travel through time and space whenever you look at fire. You're known as a time-traveling bounty hunter and vampire slayer; now Queen Victoria is your client. Find and deliver pearls to the Fairy Realm so their new prince may be crowned.
The Little Match Girl against the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls (2023)
In this game, you play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, a young woman whose primary talent is to travel to other times and places by looking at fires. But hush. Concentrating, filling your revolver with fire, you shoot a blast of hot radiance at a scarecrow. In its straw head, a splinter of the hated Mirror of Belial is destroyed, but the scarecrow itself is unharmed. "Well done!" cries Hrieman the crow, who doesn't mind the rain at all. "But how do you know the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls is responsible?"
The Little Match Girl and Her Friend, the Crow (2023)
In this game, you play as Ebenezabeth Scrooge, the little match girl who transports herself to other places and times just by looking at fire. In the attic, she tearfully lights a candelabrum, explaining to her friend, Hrieman the crow, that Linus killed the Prepotence. The crow accompanies the girl in her quest to make things right.
LiveJoseph (2011)
In this short interactive non-fiction, you're visiting the game's author in his apartment. Make yourself at home and ask Joseph questions about his job, his family, and a few other topics.
Living Room (2000)
You play as someone trying to get the dead body from the attic past your dad who's sleeping in his chair in the living room. (Part 4 in a 6-part series.)
Llangollen Rock City (2003)
In this short silly homage to Westfront PC, you play as someone who must complete two quests for the frontier psychiatrist. First, bring him some apricots from the funkeys' farm. Second, jump. And those quests must be done in order!
The Lobster (2001)
In this small game, you play as a lobster, captured in an act of war and boiled purple by your enemy. You will escape this indignity, take your revenge, and return to your people in the sea.
Lobster Bucket (2014)
In this game, you play as an adventurer, hired by the aquabats to get their McGuffin back from the Evil Overlord's dungeons. You begin at the dungeon entrance with a map, a smoke grenade, and a teleportation grenade. Avoid the wandering mooks! Don't let them see you!
Locate the Golden Donut! (2016)
In this small game, you entered this spooky house to find the Golden Donut, a solid gold donut that can spawn free food! But the front door slammed shut on its own. How will you get out again?
The Locked Room (2023)
In this simple underimplemented one-room escape game based on a handful of jokes, you must find a way to eat, drink, and escape from a locked room.
Lomalow (1999)
You play as a hiker who just miraculously survived an avalanche. You soon discover you're in a rather isolated area which inexplicably contains the log cabin home of an old man and woman. It's odd. You should talk to them. Perhaps they will eventually tell you what you need to know.
The Lone Star Menáçe (2003)
In this game, you play as a handsome clownfish wearing a Man Suit, high above L'Austin in a hot air balloon. You're on an espionage mission. Your objectives are: survive freefall, locate the embassy, obtain evidence of Franco-Texan plans, and escape alive.
The Lonely Troll (2022)
In this small pleasant fantasy game, you play as a lonely troll who lives in a snug house in a valley of apple trees. You want to talk to someone. You want an adventure. You want a friend.
Looking for Godot (1996)
In this small whimsical game, you're searching your home for a copy of Waiting for Godot to return to your English teacher. It's not on the porch; you only found a rotting fish there. Now where could that book be?
Lost In New York (2000)
In this one-room joke game, you're literally lost in New York City. Try to find a way to get to your destination, wherever it is.
The Lost Islands of Alabaz (2011)
In this children's adventure story, you play as a King's Knight. For fifty years, the Alabaz Archipelago has been shrouded in a thick gray mist that no ship can navigate through. But now, King Alexander himself has found a magic pearl that may be the key to breaking the curse. Your quest, brave knight, is to take this pearl and your new ship, the Dauntless, and discover the lost islands of Alabaz.
The Lost Kingdom (2004)
In this exceedingly-primitive two-word parser game, you play as a king of Kappa Ceti 4 who was betrayed by the techno-mages. (It's a long story.) You now appear to be no more than a lowly peasant. To save your world, you must recover your symbols of leadership, return to your hovel, and sit on the mock throne they left you.
Lost Pig (2007)
Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. Boss say Grunk go find pig, bring it back. Him say, if Grunk not bring back pig, not bring back Grunk either. Grunk like working at pig farm, so now Grunk need find pig.
The Lost Spellmaker (1997-1998)
You play as Mattie, an agent for the Sacromys Pemcoangs Secret Service. "T" has given you a new mission: find the lost spellmaker, old Drew Tungshinach, and return him to the community.
Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl (2020)
In this humorous game, you play as Trixie, the lovely assistant to Mugwort the Magician, the famous illusionist and occasional superhero! When his third-string nemesis, The Skeptical Rationalist, kidnaps Mugwort, it'll be up to you, dear Trixie, to follow the villain's torturously logical clues and rescue Mugwort.
Low (2016)
You play as someone driving a car on a lonely highway, late at night under a full moon. You're so tired. Your arm tingles and there's blood on your sleeve from ... you don't want to think about it. Then you look in the rear-view mirror. They're following you.
Lowell's Paradise (2008)
In this very short game, you play as someone who accidentally falls away from their experiment and into a park. Professor Lowell explains you're in Lowell's Paradise, a bubble in space, but a giant broke the conduit back, so everyone's trapped. Just stay away from that rip in the sky, okay?
The Ludicorp Mystery (2006)
In this game, you play as a concerned citizen, very likely a gamer, exploring a large office building. Ludicorp is very overdue with their next game release. You're worried that something has gone wrong at the Ludicorp offices, so you decide to visit them and investigate the situation.
Lunar Base 1 (2012)
It's 2080. You're playing as Captain Stan Rogers. You and another astronaut, Dr. John Klose, have traveled to the moon to be its first long-term inhabitants inside Lunar Base 1. But after several unexpected events and discoveries, you both won't be staying as long as you planned.
Lurk. Unite. Die. Invent. Think. Expire. (1999)
In this small and rather surreal game, your character is undescribed, and you can visit a handful of bizarre locations that seem to have nothing to do with each other. Maybe it's interesting? Or maybe it's a pointless waste of your time. You decide.
The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening (2018)
In this game, you play as a student of alchemy stuck in a time loop. In just nine minutes, the Eldest Horror will wake up and consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe—unless you—
Lux (2018)
In this game, you play as Sandra Nowicki, a research assistant in an OSMiC gas mine on planetoid D107. You wake up completely blind on the floor of the exterior module's research room while the voice of Odys, the station's AI, explains what happened. Odys tells you that an Outworlders' spaceship attacked the facility and an underground gas tank of vulcanium exploded, killing everyone else but only blinding you because your exposure was small. Odys will now guide you to reach the command centre where you can send a distress signal so you can finally be rescued and safe.
Lydia's Heart (2007)
In this large horror game, you play as 14-year-old Diane Lindsay, dragged by your Aunt Caroline to this dreadful set of cabins on the edge of a Mississippi swamp, supposedly for a "sunset picnic" where she insists you wear a white dress. The other guests are acting weird. The owner reeks of evil. And there's a ghost girl flying around a stained altar, and how creepy is that? You need to get out of there before sunset, but how?
The Mage Wars: Statue (2003)
In this lengthy unfinished game divided into chapters, you'll be playing as various characters, but mostly as Dr. Marcus Philbrook, a man who petrifies himself into a statue in 1997 and wakes up in a museum in 9236. Unbeknowst to Marcus, the world now uses magic, and an evil mage named Noric the dark will soon threaten everyone with his power.
Magic (2008)
In this odd game, you play as a magician-for-hire the day after a bad gig and a night in the rain. You find your top hat and flip its catch to release Rupert, your rabbit, who immediately attacks you like a demon and starts a reign of terror. You also find a Meta trick that lets you COMPARE things to other things to transform them.
Magic Travels (2010)
In this non-interactive story, you are the last magician, hunting the Master Hunter. You must defeat him to bring back magic. Unfortunately, the game is just one big text dump, and you always die. Hope you're okay with that.
The Magician's Niece (2009)
In this three-room introduction to a game, you play as a teenager, Ariana, and you're a magician just like your Uncle. It's Saturday night, and Uncle calls you on the palantiri. He needs you to grab your things and come to the Mage's Hall immediately, ready for magical combat.
The Magnificent Museum of Masterly Masterworks (2020)
In this puzzleless work of interactive fiction, you may tour a small museum of art pieces inspired by the interactive fiction works of Ryan Veeder. The source code is also presented as artwork.
Maiden of the Moonlight (1996)
You are standing in front of Drochsolas Manse, preparing to explore it in an attempt to find the key to ending the Baron's curse upon the surrounding land. You have come bearing your sword and pistol as well as a prayer that any hazards you might encounter within the haunted mansion can be dealt with by such physical means.
Major Charles Boulton and the Northwest Rebellion (2007)
This tiny, incomplete, and goal-less story is based on Reminiscences of the North-West Rebellions by Major Charles A. Boulton, Commanding Boulton's Scouts Toronto, 1886. It's mostly asking two people about a bayonette and little else.
The Man From DEFRA (2002)
You play as a goat whose goal is to prevent the slaughter of yourself and your herd by health officials from DEFRA. (DEFRA is the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a UK government agency.) Since you are a goat, this may be a bit of a challenge.
The Man in the Rain (2010)
In this adventure game which is also a tribute to the music of Mike Oldfield, you play as a young warrior on a quest. Your tribe's queen is dying. Go to the peak of Mount U'huru, far to the north, and ask the Wise Man who lives there for his aid.
Man Overboard!!! (2006)
You play as Captain Jean Luc-Warm of the Royal Navy cargo ship, the HMS Challenged. Because your first mission is a total cock-up and your crew are all idiots, you plan to abandon ship and go home to Piddlington on Sea and set up an online lingerie store.
The man-eating, halitosic gorilla of Brazil (2011)
You play as AFGNCAAP, a secret agent sent into the Brazilian jungle to find a new mastermind and his secret temple. Too bad he finds you first.
Manna (2002)
In this story where the venue changes almost every turn, you play as three men of faith. As Captain Stilton, your goal is to kill heretics. As Underplonkdeaconmeister Gouda, your goal is to retrieve the Device from its hiding place in the Vault and use it. And as the Ninth Prophet, your goal is to survive in the cruel Cathratocean Desert.
Marie Waits (2023)
In this escape game, you play as Marie. You were captured during an investigation, and now you're tied to a chair in a pit in a hut in Nowhere, Essex. One of your captors says "all she can do now is wait till noon." It's nine o'clock now. You have three hours to escape.
Martha's Big Date (2008)
This game is based on a fanfiction series written for Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. You play as Martha Jeraldine Kent, teenaged daughter of Superman, and you need to get ready for your big date with Troy.
The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (2016)
In this fanfic sequel to Brain Guzzlers From Beyond!, you play as Mary Jane Minsky of Canyonville, NM. You've built a Mary Jane of Tomorrow robot replica of yourself as a present for your best friend Jenny so she'd have a companion at the flower shop, but she'd be much happier if you reprogrammed the robot into a Jenny of Tomorrow. That way, the replica can replace her in the store and then the real Jenny can be with you! Ulm.
A Masochist's Heaven (2002)
In this tiny game, you play as a masochist in Heaven, and you don't like it. You want pain! You want suffering! Find a way to get kicked out of Heaven and into Hell where you belong.
Masters of Toasting (2000)
In this small game, you play as a member of the Toaster Repair Corps at Advanced Appliances, Inc. You've received a Level Three Repair alert from the set of the hit show "Monday Night Cookoff". If you can fix their toaster quickly enough, you'll truly be one of the Masters of Toasting.
Mean Mother Trucker (2021)
In this comedic classic puzzlefest, you play as "Big Ester" Gruberman, a mean mother trucker. You've parked your truck in Desecration, Nevada, the last stop north of The Devil's Taint, an infamous highway that snakes through the treacherous Spiketop Mountains. But before you make that dangerous run, there's someone here you need to see.
Mean Streets (2015)
You play as Dirk Justice, recently-disgraced and suspended police detective and walking cliché. You were relieved of your badge and absurdly large arsenal of weaponry this morning because you dared to arrest Mr. Big, the kingpin of crime in Grittyville, without a warrant. Of course, this means you'll totally go "lone wolf" and kill every criminal you find. In self-defence. And this will make everything okay because Justice must prevail.
Meeting Robb Sherwin (2019)
In this lightweight on-the-rails story, you play as a guy traveling to Denver, Colorado to attend the wedding of Robb Sherwin, a friend you know online but have yet to actually meet in person. Another friend, Jack "Jonathan" Flack, will also be there, and you're looking forward to seeing him again too.
Mental Entertainment (2019)
In this story, you play as Kerry Anderson, a licensed virtual reality dependency assessor. Addiction to VR can have serious consequences if not treated. Predictive models have flagged three people for you to assess, one of whom is a personal friend. Your job is to interview them in their current VR settings, then assess them.
Merk (2011)
"Dear Jim and Kevin,
I have a mission for you: find me a 100-year-old typewriter. You'll be rewarded with space riches beyond your wildest dreams!
Your new friend,
Merk from Pluto"
The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet (1996)
In this fantasy Zork-style game, you're an Ambassador touring the Northland Empire with the vapid and never-bored Lady Amilia. But you've been stuck in this cushioned basket on top of an elephant with her, surrounded by her honour guard for a fortnight. How to get away and see something interesting or important?
Mhairie Sioux Escrivain and the Dracula of Hogwarts (2016)
In this short story set in the Harry Potter universe, you play as Mhairie Sioux Escrivain, a normal girl living a normal life in North Dakota who becomes an exchange student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in England! Your animagus mother, unicorn father, and telepathic fairie-dragon familiar didn't prepare you for anything like this!
Midair Madness (2010)
You're on a private jet owned by your Uncle Doug, flying east over the Great Plains. At least, it was flying until Uncle Doug, in an act of madness, magically stopped the plane in midair for reasons difficult to summarize or believe. Can you find a way to get the jet moving again?
Midnight at Al's Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings (2022)
In this game, you play as a female college student currently working a summer job at an odd "self" storage facility. Every evening, Joe gives you a list of chores. Tonight, you need to find three boxes and move them to the loading dock. The sooner you get it done, the sooner you can take a nap in the break room.
Midsummer's Eve (2023)
It's Midsummer's Eve and in this magical game, you're one of several 13-year-old children competing in the Midsummer's Eve Treasure Hunt. You're looking for clues, you may not enter any buildings, and whoever wins gets to make any request (within reason) of the mayor! And you're going to win!
The Milk of Paradise (2009)
In this short game, you are the Khan in your pleasure dome. You are a ruler, a conqueror, handsome, excellent, eternal, yet your memories are strangely gone. O, my Khan, I am but your humble servant, and I shall guide you well.
The Mind Electric (1995)
In this surreal game, you play as a captured spy, your mind locked in a digital cell but inexplicably left unanalyzed and unbrainwashed. No mind can stay in virtual space indefinitely, though. Somehow, you'll use a rotating red cube and a loop-crawling spider to help you escape.
Mingsheng (2004)
You play as a Chinese individual who has left their village in search of a legend, a wise old man who has somehow combined two schools of thought: martial arts and spirituality. You wish to learn his combined philosophy and teach it to your village.
Mirror and Queen (2016)
In this puzzleless one-room story based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, you play as the queen consulting the magic mirror. The gameplay consists entirely of asking your oracular mirror about as many topics (relating to herself, the princess, and the court) as you can before its puissance is expended.
Missing Grandpa: Lost in Time (2012)
In this severely under-implemented game, you play as someone looking for your Grandpa. Grandpa's been missing for three days. You have a suspicion where he's gone and you decided to check his notes in his attic which mention time travel and a hidden door.
The Mission (1990)
You play as a English adventurer, famed for finding Guinevere's shoelace. At the gentlemen's club, Blenkinsop goads you into accepting his challenge: to find Quetzlcoatl's toothpick. Both your fortunes are riding on this wager. You are uncharacteristically pessimistic about your chances, but failure is unthinkable. You begin your mission.
Mission from Short (2004)
In this small game, you play as someone at the 2003 XYZZY Award Ceremony. It's odd that Mike Sousa wasn't here to claim his Best Individual Puzzle award, but that doesn't mean there's a conspiracy going on, does it?
Mite (2010)
In this small fantasy adventure game, you play as Mite, a pixy lad, who is carrying an egg-shaped jewel dropped by a cloaked thief who you tripped that morning. The gem belongs to the Fairy Prince! You must travel through the Great Garden to return it to him.
Molly and the Butter Thieves (2015)
You play as Molly Butterfield, dairy farmer extraordinaire. Fairies have stolen your butter and prized butter dish for the last time. You intend to follow them and get your butter dish back.
A Moment of Hope (1999)
In this short story, you play as a young man who becomes a nervous wreck wondering if Anna, a woman he matched with on a dating website, actually has any romantic interest in him or not.
Moments Out of Time (2001)
In this game, you play as StreamDiver Alpha Tango-678. You have been approved for a new historical research mission to visit the past for a twelve hour duration in a family home. Record all your findings, but avoid direct contact with any people. To aid your mission, you may take one tool from the equipment locker and up to five chips for your StreamDive console.
A Monkey Stole Your Toast! (2003)
You just made some delicious toast! Yum! Then a monkey stole your toast! Oh no! YOU MUST GET IT BACK.
Moon Base (2017)
In this short story, you play as Maria Kenshall. Your spaceship is the MarGesh. You have been ordered to investigate the moon base on Falk in the Galmerek system and find out why they haven't been responding to communication for a week.
Moon Over Jupiter (2001)
In this small game, you play as a man who's been been traveling for sixteen weeks in this tin can but now you're finally at Io, jewel of space. You're eager for some shore leave, but your crewmate Brutus changed the airlock password. Guess you better wake that hamster up from his cryosleep and get him to open it.
Moon-Shaped (2006)
In this game partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, you play as Rosalind Wechsler, a girl on the cusp of her 13th birthday. What begins as a trip to Grandmother's house in the woods leads to disturbing family secrets, and may end in a family reunion, death, or both.
Moonbase (2002)
You play as an employee of Earth Control. Moonbase Alpha hasn't contacted Earth for three days; it's your job to teleport over there and find out what's happening up there. Good luck!
Moondarkling: Elfboon (2011)
You play as Zbyana (and you have many other names) of the Ruritanian Liminal Patrol. In the Margin Cafe, you find a beautiful outclade elf. Do you arrest her, ignore her, or try to help her?
The Moonlit Tower (2002)
You play as someone in black-and-gold armor and silk. You are also wearing half a mask; its other half has fallen onto the floor. Curious. More curious is the tower you are in, whose stone admits moonlight. It will prove to be a tower of curiosities, both familiar and strange. Explore. Use all your senses. Rediscover where and who you are.
Moonwrecked (2011)
In this short game, you play as a Prometheus Corp employee on an exploratory mission on the Moon. Unfortunately, your rivals at Titan Corp have sabotaged your moon buggy, leaving you without a long-range radio. Can you salvage your mission?
Moral Me This (1998)
You play as someone who fell into that hole with the time warp that your mother warned you about. Now you're in a meadow with an iguana.
Morris (2021)
In this small game, you stayed too long in this Pokey End pub, and now the village square outside is filled with Morris dancers! You're terrified of Morris dancers! How will you escape? (Two ways to win.)
Mortlake Manor (2012)
In this rather dull, sparsely-implemented game, you play as someone who wants to find a treasure hidden somewhere in haunted Mortlake Manor.
Motel California (2011)
You play as a guest of the Motel California. You've enjoyed your stay, but leaving the motel is going to be difficult since you're missing your car key, room key, and the claim ticket for your luggage. Maybe the other guests can help you find them?
The Mouse Who Woke Up For Christmas (2018)
In this game, you play as a distinguished gentleman mouse named Gerald. You've woken up early on Christmas Eve morning to accompish the following tasks: light a fire, find a stocking and hang it up, find a present to give to your daughter Jessica, and buy some beer for yourself.
Moving (On) (2020)
In this story, you play as a young woman back at your mum and dad's house. They're moving to a smaller place, so you're here to finish cleaning out your old room. Explore the memories associated with your old things and remember the lessons you've learned.
Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret (2008)
You play as a kid on your way home from school on a Monday afternoon. Last Friday, ugly crabby Mrs. Pepper took your skateboard away from you when you had a freak spill in front of her driveway. She wouldn't give your skateboard back then, but maybe you can get it back now?
Muggle Studies (2012)
You play as Alice Armstrong, the new Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland, even though you've never heard of "muggles" before and never knew magic was real until the headmaster proved it to you. But when you arrive at the school, you discover that a botched spell has made everyone disappear and you're now trapped within the castle. Is this something you can fix without magic?
The Mulldoon Murders (2002)
In this game, you play as a private eye hired to find a Mr. Mulldoon who disappeared a fortnight ago. The story is that he came to this odd museum in the middle of the night to look for his grandfather's will. But it makes no sense. You met old Edgar Mulldoon, the owner of the museum, last Wednesday in a supermarket.
The Mundane Tale of the Morning After (2014)
In this small game, you play as a tiny ninja dressed in green. After last night's party, you've woken up with a hangover. You need to take care of that. And where's your nunchaku?
Murder at the Aero Club (2004)
In this short game, you play as a detective investigating the murder of an ASAC inspector at the TAF Aero Club, eight hours away from Sydney. Let's hope you can solve the case quickly!
Murder at the Manor (2018)
In this short on-rails murder mystery, you play as Inspector Percival Pike of the London Metropolitan Police investigating the murder of Sir Stanley Stagwood in his manor. There are four suspects: his girlfriend, his business partner, his nephew, and his childhood nanny. It's up to you to find out who did it and arrest them.
Murder on the Big Nothing (2018)
In this short story, you play as the spirit or ghost of a man recently shot to death on a train. You should try to find out who you were, why you were murdered, and if there's something else you should do—if you can do anything—before moving on.
Music Education (1999)
In this somewhat aimless game, you play as a music student at a southeastern university. You need to practice your saxophone before the band concert tonight, so you decide to risk parking your car in front of an expired parking meter when you have no change for it.
My Evil Twin (2012)
In this small game involving twinned objects and locations, you know that your evil twin is up to something. You can always tell since you share the same brain. You have to stop his evil schemes and you're the only one who can.
My Little Project Concept is Proven (2012)
In this mostly-empty programming exercise, walk about four locations in Ponyville. Look at the two undescribed beds, then quit.
The Mysterious Case of the Acrobat and His Peers (2009)
In this interactive adventure, a greenhorn detective must find a missing acrobat and solve the mystery by exploring the circus and questioning everything from tiger trainers to monotone ringmasters to sad clowns.
Mystery! (2016)
In this game based on the board game Clue, you play as an investigator summoned to Tudor Mansion to do one last job for Rick Mortis. Unfortunately, you'll be solving his murder. Who did it where with which weapon? A random solution each time you play.
The Mystery of Winchester High (2023)
In this treasure hunt game, you play as Ian McKenzie, a rebellious 13-year-old student at Winchester High, Dunedin, New Zealand. The school was once the Winchester mansion, donated by Frederick H Winchester III to the city in 1932. Rumors say there's a hidden fortune somewhere in the mansion. You plan to find it and give it to the principal so the school doesn't close from lack of funding.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective" (2000)
In this spoof of a 12-year-old's awful AGT game, you play as a police detective searching the city for the mayor's killer. As you play, Mike, Crow, and Tom in the Satellite of Love watch your progress and provide mocking commentary.
MythTale (2002)
In this game about Greek myths, you play as several characters. In the prologue and endgame, you are a hero who wants to make his destiny with the Golden Bowl of Artemis. In the main game, you are a modern-day cat owner searching for five pages of notes. sEach page describes a different myth which you enact as Theseus, Celides, Daedalus, Polyeidus, or Hermes when you take their page.
Napier's Cache (2020)
Scotland, 1594. John Napier is a famed scholar, alchemist, and occultist recently hired by Robert Logan of Restalrig to find a treasure hidden in Fast Castle. In this story, you play as Napier's assistant. Success will bring rich rewards. Failure is too terrifying to contemplate.
Narcissi (2020)
In this short story, you play as someone who has finally gone for a walk after spending weeks at home. You've arrived at a shady grove with a pond and you're feeling lonely. This story features several Shakespearean quotes.
Need! More! Toast! (2003)
In this one-room game, you play as someone who's made eight slices of toast and put them all, from largest to smallest, on one of two plates glued to the counter. Naturally, you must sit to eat, and of course, toast only belongs on a plate. Can you move all the slices, one by one, to a plate on the table, without making any unbalanced stacks of toast?
Nevermore (2000)
In this melancholy story deeply inspired by The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, you play as a weak and weary gentleman who is deeply saddened by the loss of your beloved wife Lenore. With the forgotten lore of alchemy, you intend to alter this existence of yours. If tonight you fail, you have lost forever. (Note: This story features drug use.)
New Cat (2011)
In this game, you play as a female kitten with black fur and a long tail. But you have no name. He only calls you "Cat". Explore your new home (using relative directions), doing as many kittenish things as you can before He returns. Maybe then He will give you your name.
The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom (2008)
In this fantasy romance, you are a new arrival at the very secretive Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom. Now prove you have the right to be there by completing three extreme tests. The penalty for failure is death.
A Night at Milliways (2001)
In this interactive tribute to Douglas Adams, you play as someone at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. You need to meet an acquaintance of yours at one of the first-class tables.
A Night At The Museum Forever (1995)
In this game, you play as a professional troubleshooter. You've been hired to recover a diamond ring, the last artifact remaining in a very ancient race's museum, once home to artifacts from both the past and the future! Others who tried to obtain the ring were lost to temporal paradox. May you succeed where they failed.
A Night At The XYZZYies (2001)
In this game, you're attending the 2000 XYZZY Awards when the MC, inky, announces that their one-of-a-kind trophies have disappeared and there will be no XYZZY awards this year. Everyone leaves the auditorium, but you vow to find those trophies if it's the last thing you do! The XYZZYies must go on!
Night of the Walking Dead (1992)
You are in an old rundown cemetery at the edge of a Louisiana bayou, looking for the grave of your Aunt Bedilia. Can you bring back her locket? Or will you be thwarted by the secrets of the dead?
Nine Lives (2015)
In this game, you play as a newly-dead housecat. Kittygoddess tells you have eight lives left. Kiss her to return to life, but your home is very dangerous to cats. When you have no lives left, Kittygoddess gives you a final choice.
Niney (2017)
You play as a passenger on a train. Initially, you are no one, but each day you might be someone such as the One Who Is Weak or the One Who Gazes Ahead. And when you sleep, you might be Niney, the beloved squirrel who nine times out of ten does the right thing.
No Time To Squeal (2001)
At the start of this game, you play as Kieron Scott, a sports agent. You're at the golf course with the general manager of the Patriots and his buddies in an attempt to get him to sign up your client Pittman, a guy with real skill on the field but his off-field antics have been a PR nightmare. You tell him that he'll be more responsible now that he and his girlfriend are expecting a new baby, a sentiment you can easily convey since you and your wife Charlise are also expecting a new baby.
Nostradamus's Onion Sandwich (1999)
In this small game, you play as someone at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 2042. You're here to fulfil a prophecy.
Not Just A Game (2000)
You've arrived at your teacher's home for your weekly Go lesson, but she's missing. And her Go board is missing too. Is this one of her tests?
Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina (1999)
You play as a last-minute Christmas shopper, desperate to acquire a Sugar Toes Ballerina for your beloved daughter Samantha. But the only one anywhere is somewhere inside this run-down mall on the far edge of town, and you arrived too late! All the stores are closed, but you will not go home empty-handed. Somehow, you must get that ballerina!
Not Much Time (2002)
After a frantic and incoherent phone call from your Auntie, you've rushed over to her farmhouse to find out what's wrong. And when you do find her, you'll need to bring her a few things in order to fix the problem.
Nothing But Mazes (2006–2019)
In this large game, you play as Gary Randall, a man who had a heart attack in 2026, was frozen in a cryogenic tube, then revived in 2189 by green aliens from Oo. Humanity bombed itself back to the Iron Age in 2068 and aliens rule the planet now. And these aliens insist that you will play their new interactive fiction game, Nothing But Mazes, which is filled with mazes and death traps. Oh, and you'll die in real life if you die in the game. Doesn't that sound like fun?
Nothing Could Be Further From the Truth (2023)
In this Paranoia-inspired setting, you play as Oliva Mirram, a maid who lingered too long to finish dusting after the lab director ordered all peons like you to evacuate the building. Never in your short life in the Bunker — humanity's last refuge, nestled under the surface of Venus — have you ever been alone before. Above you, a security camera scans for traitors. You should head inward, towards the lobby and exit.
Nowheresville (2022)
In this game, you're in a strange town you don't recognize. It's too clean. Unused. Everyone's a job stereotype. And there's no way to leave. The diner's waitress calls it Nowheresville, or Hell. She says everyone's been here a very long time, and asks if you'll try to break out again. For mature adults only.
Nudists Gone Wild (2010)
In this short simple game, you play as a naked man who just stripped off his clothes at the beach. All you want to do now is head over to the nearby nudist colony and start your clothesfree life!
Nyna Lives: Chapter 1 (2017)
In this story, you play as a cat named Nyna who has just gotten comfortable. However, your mistress, a witch, has a job for you. She needs you to fetch a spell ingredient for her, a flower that blooms only once a month. Be careful out there!
The Obscene Quest of Dr. Aardvarkbarf (1997)
The story so far: You were a undergraduate in Temporal Physics until a dalliance involving a stolen time machine and cheap champagne got you expelled. Now you work as an assistant to Dr. Bignose, chair of the Temporal Physics Department. Although today's Saturday, he called you at the ungodly hour of noon to do a teeny-weeny favor: come onto campus and deliver an envelope to Dr. Aardvarkbarf. He's sure it won't take too long.
Octopus's Garden (2009)
In this small game, you play as a woman's pet octopus, and your aquarium sits on an ornate table in her apartment's bedroom. You once loved the view of the city from the nearby window, but you're bored with it now. Convince your owner to move. You need a change of scenery.
Of Their Shadows Deep (2022)
In this small game, you play as someone fetching firewood in the winter woods for you and your mother. She has lost so many words; a loss that began as a slow trickle accelerated into a fire, the words escaping through her eyes like charred pages, white birds fleeing into the woods. This game features ASCII art, poetry, and riddles.
Offensive Probing (1999)
You play as Martin McSondheim, a new graduate of the Space Federation living in a cheap apartment on Triton. You've just received your first assignment on the SFS Connery, a scout ship surveying the Federation borders. Congratulations, Ensign!
Offering (2012)
The first half of this story is a retelling from Genesis 22 where Abraham takes his only son Isaac up the mountain as a sacrifice for God. In the second half, you play as Virginia, a high school student, hanging out with Ike in his parked '57 Chevy before the big dance. How much do you like Ike? What will you sacrifice to prove it?
Content warning: physical abuse.
Office Goose (2020)
In this silly little game almost-certainly inspired by Untitled Goose Game, you play as a horrible goose in an office! Peck at everything and cause as much havoc as you can!
Oh Miranda! (2003)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as a suitor waiting anxiously in Miranda's drawing room. You arrived for your date two hours ago and if she does not appear soon, you will surely miss the play. Oh Miranda! Where are you?
Oh No, Mr Crab Stole Your Hat! (2013)
In this tiny, trivial, and very threadbare game, you play as someone who realizes their hat is missing. You think Mr Crab stole your hat. Find it.
The Oily Deeps (1999)
You play as someone who told some sailors they shouldn't have any more to drink. The next thing you know, you're regaining consciousness covered in crude oil, inside a oil tank, and without your stuff. That can't be healthy.
Old Jim's Convenience Store (2019)
In this short puzzler, you play as someone who unexpectedly inherited a convenience store in rural Kansas from your late Uncle Jim. Although delighted at this chance to move forward in life, you discover that the building is quite isolated on a flat sandy plain and hasn't been used for years. Of course, you still want to look the place over. Who knows what you might find?
Old King Nebb (2020)
In this work, you play as Absalome Pilcrow, a youth from Panzitoum on a walking tour. On the way to the Redfort, you stop by the palace of Old King Nebb and decide to explore it.
The oldest hangover on Earth (2015)
You play as someone who got mummified for a lark centuries ago, then woke up with their cat in modern times. Unfortunately, you're missing a few vital organs which you'll need to replace before you can make your way in this new world.
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free (2013)
You play as Mr. Mark Ginsberg, an art teacher in an elementary school on a military base which has just been bombed. Weak and injured as you are, you must find your scattered students and get them to safety.
On The Cross (2004)
In this first chapter of an unfinished story, you play as a man named Joseph (a.k.a. Joe). After ten years with the company, Kenneth (a.k.a. Ken) is dissatisfied with the documents that you give him so he strands you on the roadside in the middle of the desert. You need to get back to civilization.
On the Farm (1999)
You play as kid visiting Grandma and Grandpa on the farm for the weekend. Unfortunately, Grandpa forgot Grandma's birthday and they've just had a big argument about it. Grandpa hopes you can think of a way to get Grandma to forgive him.
On Your Back (2013)
In this small one-room game, you play as a turtle who had the misfortune of being turned onto its back by a lumbering boy. If you try to listen, you sense the boy, a dog, and a snake are nearby. How can you get right side up again?
Once and Future (1994–2001)
In this large fantasy game, you play as Frank Leandro, a 23 year-old soldier in Vietnam. But after you die heroically, you soon find yourself in the quasi-reality of Avalon searching for King Arthur's sword and his other holy items so you can return to true life — because there's some as-yet-unnamed evil in the Real World that you still need to defeat.
A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity (2021)
In this small game, you're standing outside a 'Game Hall Emporium' in Las Vegas. A certain Mr Bell invited you here to win a lot of money, a once in a lifetime opportunity you couldn't ignore. Bell's message was light on details, but you do want to be wealthy. You just hope your phobia won't get in the way.
The one about the chicken, the lion and the monkey? (1998)
Tomorrow is your girlfriend's birthday. You know that she is expecting jewellery but have left it very late to buy anything. Too late maybe - all the shops seem to be shut now. You're tempted to just go home. But wait! What is that you spy on the Other Side of the road?
One Eye Open (2010)
In this horror game, you play as a test subject for Corona Labs. But when you leave the test chamber after a late night testing session, you somehow find your yourself twenty years in the past when the building was the Mt. Airy Hospital. Worse, it's a bloodsoaked hospital filled with corpses and nightmarishly organic features as if the building itself wants to eat you alive.
Content warning: blood, gore, human injury and death, mild language, tobacco reference, violence, and violent references.
One King to Loot them All (2023)
In this custom-command tale of adventure, you play as the Barbarian King. Regard the scene. You have just slain the demon that an enemy sorcerer sent into your very throne room through a magical portal. Your blood sings. You crave vengeance. Seize your weapon, smite your foes, and loot their spoils!
One Night In The North Atlantic (1999)
You play as someone who was a passenger on the Titanic. You took a sleeping powder to help you sleep and you wake up on an iceberg next to a Mr. Potato Head. My word, this is highly irregular.
One Night Stand (2014)
In this game, you play as Sandy Owens, a young woman who wakes up naked beside an equally naked sleeping dude in a student dorm bedroom. You want to get dressed, say your goodbyes, and leave, but you can't remember the dude's name.
The One That Got Away (1995)
On a fishing trip, you overhear about a legendary fish, The Old One, that appears once every thirty years, including this year. You thrill to the challenge. You will succeed where others failed. The Old One will not be The One That Got Away.
One way out (2017)
In this short story, you play as a woman trapped in a virtual landscape of her fears, looking for a way out. But you also play as a man in love with the woman, reading the woman's blog where she describes her phobias in an oddly structured style under the username Myfearlady.
The Onion of Destiny (1999)
You have come to the top of the Eiffel Tower to prevent a catastrophe. Nostradamus's writings have told you that unless you cut an onion with a ceremonial knife before 10 this morning somewhere up here, the world is doomed.
Only After Dark (1999, 2000)
In this short horror story, you play as Ranil Kuami, a young black sailor enjoying some shore leave on a small island. The villagers are friendly, and you plan on getting some action tonight. Instead, you'll find something evil that must be destroyed.
OnNoEf (1999)
In this bizarre tiny game, you are on top of a tall tower in Paris, but you don't remember its name or what it's for. Perhaps you can ask someone about it.
Open That Vein (2015)
In this surreal game with a limited command set, are you prepared to open that vein? If yes, what will you find inside? And what will your mother say? Whatever happens, this is the way it's meant to be.
Oppositely Opal (2015)
You play as Opal, a witch who has flown to Iceland to compete in PotionComp. But your rival and frenemy, Grusilda, has tricked you. PotionComp is in Ireland and now you're trapped in a tiny cabin where all your spells have their opposite effects. How are you going to get to the competition now?
The Oracle (2002)
You play as a seventeen year-old peasant boy, sent by the council of elders into the Black Mountains to beg the great oracle for her counsel. War has come to the land of your forefathers, and your people's attempts to repel the invaders are failing. Soon, the demon hoards will break through the skirmishes and plunder the farms and villages. After centuries of silence, the voice of the great oracle must be heard or all is lost.
Orchid Species of the Erastian (2020)
In this small experimental online game, you play as someone exploring various islands and drawing any orchids you find in your sketchbook. It's very pleasant. The game can be updated at any time to have new content, but the author is under no obligation to ever do so, so this might be all you're getting.
Order (2004)
You play as a spirit who delights in solving puzzles summoned by an enclave of wizards into a realm where matter is less stable and energy is plentiful. You have been gifted with the power to create what you need, and your task is to defend the wizards against their attackers, several powerful monsters, their origins and motivations unknown.
The Origin of Madame Time (2018)
In this game, you play as Justine Thyme, a high school student who, while hiding from a pitched battle between superheroes and supervillians, discovers she herself has latent superpowers and has instinctively frozen the entire area in time. A falling nuclear reactor is about to explode and it is up to you and you alone to save every last person in this abandoned theme park.
The Orion Agenda (2004)
In this sci-fi story, you play as Capt. Jon Stark of SciCorps. You're monitoring a promising alien species on Orion 3 from orbit on Station One when the General gives you your first field assignment. Outpost 132 has gone silent. You and Lt. Rebecca Crusoe are to take a shuttle to the surface and investigate the situation.
Orpington (1998)
You play as either Buff or Buffy Orpington, a chicken on the run. Unfortunately, the gameplay involves micromanaging the movements of your left and right legs, explicitly directing them up, down, and back in your frantic effort to escape Farmer Bill's sharpened axe.
Oth. (2002)
In this extremely short story, loosely based on Shakespeare's Othello and extremely abbreviated to the point of absurdity, you play as Oth. You believe that Dessy, your wife, has been unfaithful.
Out (2019)
In this short puzzleless story, you are taking a walking tour outward, ever outward, starting from your room in your house. How far out can you and your dog, Alpha, go?
Out of the Study (2002)
In this one-room puzzle game, you play as a burglar hired to steal Professor Fenshire's papers from his study. You had no trouble getting into the study, but as the door clicks shut, you realize that getting out of the study is going to be far more difficult.
Pantheon, Party On (2000)
In this simple game of busywork, you play as someone tasked with preparing the gods' lounge for a surprise party welcoming Chuck D. Schmendiman into the Pantheon. Jupiter has given you a checklist of everything you need to get for the party.
Pants on the Run (2001)
You play as a worker at Rockets, Sprockets and Pants. It's been a long week and you just want to flee for some cavorting and/or smooching.
Pantsless in Seattle (2000)
You play as the assistant to Professor Ohms who is attempting a great experiment at the corner of 23rd and Lincoln in Seattle: using a kite and an ear of corn to find a missing sock. Your assistant went to get snacks but isn't back yet.
Paparazzi (2004)
To quote this tiny game:
You belong to the paparazzi that hunt royal celebrities. Your employer wants you to take dubious snapshots of young princesses, and to find out when and whom they will marry. You haven't been successful in this, not yet.
A Parallax Dream (2001)
In this small game, you play as an employee at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. You're in your office, but it's not clear what you should be working on.
The Parallax Moon Bar Conspiracy (2001)
You play as Kevin, an employee at the Moon Bar. After a busy night, your boss, mamster asks you to put this tea towel in the laundry basket in the dark secret back room you've never been allowed to go into before.
Passenger (2004)
In this brief intro to an uncompleted game, you play as someone Summoned onto a ship by the wizard Lorian. But before he say why, a black-clad figure assassinates him. Lorian orders you with his last breath: "Kill my killer!"
PataNoir (2011)
In this game, you play a private eye who has the unusual ability to manipulate similes as if they were tangible objects. Usually this means you can take a simile from one object and put it on another one, changing the target object accordingly. Similes can also sometimes interact with each other, as if they were normal objects. It's very strange and very awesome.
Paulinus fights for Christianity (2008)
In this religious game, you play as Paulinus, a Christian missionary. Use bribes and coercion to convert this Germanic town to Christianity, starting with their king. If you do things in the right order, you'll be able to burn their pagan idols and replace them with Christian relics.
PAX East 2010 Speed-IF (2010)
You play as a magic user who wants to visit the 1846 Better Living Through Wizardry convention in Boston. First you have to get there, then you need to find the transubstantiation panel, and maybe pick up a couple spells along the way.
PAXLess (2010)
You're someone in orbit who wants to attend PAX-East in Boston, so you send a remote-bot in your place. Now that you're effectively in the hotel, all you have to do is find the Interactive Fiction Suite!
Peeling Lucky (2017)
In this tiny game, you play as Snow White. There's a potato peeler, some diamonds, and an utterly evil witch with a bright red apple. What do you want to do?
Pen and Paint (2010)
In this game, you play as a writer, waking up after hearing something downstairs. You and your wife Eleanor soon discover there's been an intruder and her paintings are infected! You'd better find your pen and enter the stories to find out what's happened. Meanwhile, Eleanor begins a new painting to trap the intruder in.
Perdition's Flames (1993)
In this game, you play as one of the newly-dead sent to Hell via a large luxury yacht. You soon learn that Hell isn't a place for eternal torment anymore. They've modernized. You're free to explore, find employment, get a driver's license, and even visit Heaven if you want to. So what do you want to do with your afterlife?
A Perfect Day for Candiru (2001)
In this very short one-room surreal game, you seem to be a god in a formless void. How unutterably dull. Your only possessions are a cup of coffee and a swiss gold coin. Your only companion is a vague green cliché.
Perilous Magic (1999)
In this very short fantasy game based on a comment in the Enchanter manual, you play as a civil servant. You need to triplicate a report in the next half hour, but you're all out of paper.
Peter Theta Fixes The Holodeck (2001)
You play as Peter Theta. After an exhausting morning playing tetherball with the Snorks in your holodeck, it's time to turn the holodeck back into your bedroom. Unfortunately you can't because the holodeck is jammed in cartoon mode, the safeties are off, and Asterix and Alvin the Chipmunk are fighting in there.
Pharaoh (2023)
In this short linear game, you and your family were touring the Great Pyramid of Giza complex when the walls started shaking, a green vortex appeared, and your guide ran off, leaving you all in darkness. You need light, and you need to find a way out.
Phlegm (1996-1997)
You play as an unnamed treasure hunter, travelling with your trusty companion, Leo the Lemming. You've just found a treasure chest, the Treasure of Phlegm, lodged in the upper branches of a large tree. How are you going to get it down?
The Physiognomist's Office (2015)
In this very short game, you play as someone in the corridor of a medical clinic. Something bad will happen if you go back. You must escape.
Pick Up the IF-Archive and Pi (2001)
You play as the last of the IF executioners, traversing the inside of a computer. Your mission is to pay back Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for the death of GMD.
Piece of Mind (1996)
In this surreal first-person game, you start up some old financial software called "Piece of Mind" but find yourself in someone else's bedroom who's been trapped there for ages, literally unable to move until you tell them to. The two of you will have to explore several virtual realities before you figure out what's going on.
Pieces of eden (2008)
In this short introductory game, you play as an assassin in a coffee shop, but you don't remember what you've just done. Something was different this time. Police sirens are approaching. You need to escape.
pigpancake (2011)
In this very short one-room game, you play as a non-descript person on a farm where you'll find a pig and a pancake. Enjoy!
A Pilgrim (2020)
In this tiny spooky game, you play as Absalome Pilcrow, an ancient of Panzitoum. You're exhausted from a long day of walking and stop in a grove of poison pine. Perhaps you can sleep in the low building just off the path to the north.
Pirates and Ninjas and Aliens, Oh My! (2003)
In this game, you play as a child who wakes at night, sensing something wrong. Your stuffed Kermit the Frog warns you that they'll be here soon, and then your window blows in, revealing something floating outside and close enough to jump across to. Kermit says, "They're here! It's time! You must go!"
Pirating (1993)
In this short intro to a game that was never released, you play as an over-age, out-of-condition pirate. A new adventure awaits you, but before you can leave your room in the Pirate Guildhouse, you must be properly attired!
Pit of the Condemned (2015)
You play as someone who has been sentenced to death in the Pit of the Condemned for your crimes. The Pit is an abandoned underground city stripped of value, inhabited only by a huge Beast who kills all intruders. Above the Pit, spectators eagerly wait to see how you'll die. But if you are lucky and clever, perhaps they will watch how the Beast dies instead.
Plane Walker (2021)
In this rather odd game, you play as someone who wakes up disorientated inside a deserted aeroplane in mid-flight. Where is everyone? Is the pilot gone too? Where is the plane headed? Why are you even there? All you know for sure is that you must get off this plane.
The Planet of the Infinite Minds (2000)
In this whimsical puzzlefest where science is magic, you play as a librarian leaving the funfair. There, a gypsy girl tells you a crackpot story about you both being Jah-cuez-ah, or the Infinite Minds, aliens who can do anything. But after an unconvincing demonstration of her power, she leaves and locks you inside her caravan! Bother. This is going to be an adventure, isn't it?
Planet Y (1999)
In this tiny game, you're in a bar called Planet Y. It looks like there was a wild party here recently, but the place is empty, quiet, and still.
Plaque (2000)
You play as someone who came backstage to make an award plaque for Chuck Schmendiman, noted philanthropist and IF author. However, you fell asleep and the awards ceremony has already started! Better make it quickly!
Playing Games (2011)
In this small puzzle game, you play as a male game player being initiated by other game players. After drinking a drink that knocks you out, you wake up blindfolded in a forest and ready to solve some puzzles.
Please help me (2018)
In this small game, you've found a mysterious black box that sends and receives text messages. On its screen, you find a message from someone who doesn't know where they are and desperately needs your help. Will you help them escape?
Polendina (2006)
In this game, you play as an adult who inexplicably wakes up in an abbreviated and sparsely-furnished version of their childhood home. The story will touch on the dog you wanted but never had, the way your mom died, and your relationship with your dad afterwards.
Pollo y Camino (1998)
In this very-odd very-short puzzleless story, your only options are to examine, to go up or out, and wait. Who the player-character is will be revealed at the story's end.
Ponderances (2014)
In this short joke choose-your-own-death game inspired by Star Trek, you play as someone in a rather hot white cube. There's nothing here but a panel with two buttons: red and blue. Try to escape.
Poppet (2019)
In this fantasy game, you play as a rag doll named Poppet. You wake in absolute darkness which alarms you. You should be in Polly's bed, ready to protect her, and you should never have slept. And you soon discover the house is in a severe state of decay. What happened? Where is Polly and her family? How long did you sleep?
Portcullis (2016)
In this Zorkian game, you play as a peasant in the town of Portcullis that was conquered a few months ago by the evil sorcerer Zapdorf. Until today, you were also a fisher, but Zapdorf's zombies just took over all the fishing contracts and now you need to find another job. You could also try to help the new batch of adventurers in town who want to dethrone him. Whatever you do, it's going to be an interesting day.
Porter Cave Adventure (2019)
In this short game, you play as someone taking a walking tour of the Porter Cave. As you progress, you will discover quotes about game theory concepts. Presumably, the quotes are meant to educate the player, but unfortunately, the concepts are not explored deeply beyond these dry presentations and the gameplay is not particularly engaging.
Post-Christmas Letdown (2011)
In this small silly game, it's December 26th and you play as a homeowner with a headache who needs to get ready for work at the call center. Unfortunately, you have some unwanted visitors, like the Mouse King who's blocking your closet.
Potsticker (2000)
You play as PRISM, the AI from A Mind Forever Voyaging. Someone asks you over the official message line to check out the potential effects of the proposed Plan for Renewed Restaurant Cleanliness. You drop into Simulation Mode and visit the virtual city of Rockvil to do just that.
Practical Astrology (2001)
You play as Agent Hamburg, a stellar control operative, thanks to your acquisition of the definitive textbook on the subject, Moving the Stars. In normal astrology, one predicts the future by reading the heavenly bodies. But in practical astrology, one moves the heavenly bodies to engineer the desired future. Science!
The President, the Democrats, and Smelly Pete (2003)
In this short silly game, you play as a president who lives in a white house with some Democrats and a man named Smelly Pete. But today, things will change. It all begins when you're lost in the woods with a large rodent named Rat Rat.
The Princess In The Tower (2002)
In this fantasy game written in an hour, you play as a prince who must prove his love for a princess by bringing her an orc's head, a goblin's rib bone, and a diamond the exact same size as a golf ball. Only then can you be together with the princess in her tower.
The Prize (2012)
This game is told in the third-person. The adventurer has finally arrived in the hidden and forgotten valley where the tomb of the Alchemist lies. What secrets are locked inside the tomb? Such knowledge is a prize much worth having for the man who would be the Second Alchemist.
The Problems Compound (2015)
In this wordplay game of changing what's-thats to that's-whats, you play as Alec Smart, the sort of dork who likes useless games that are more like IQ tests than something fun or social. But in the Problems Compound, you'll meet lots of people more social than you who'll pose real-life problems, especially the Baiter Master, also known as the Complex Messiah.
The Profesee (1999)
In this small game, you play as someone at the top of the Eiffel Tower. You are destined to save the world with a urinal cake.
Professor Frank (2011)
You play as the absentminded Professor Frank, noted Scottish expert in newts, but nothing else. You wake up locked inside the Auldtoon Public Library and soon discover that several characters from various books, particularly by Scottish authors, roam the building at night. Leaving the library will prove to be quite the adventure!
Pryde And The Pink Flamingo (1998)
You play as someone in Suburbia determined to make your white house stand out from all the other identical houses surrounding you. Putting this pink flamingo on your lawn should do the trick quite nicely.
Psyops, Yo (2021)
In this short wordplay game involving phrases that duplicate a string of letters, you play as a DecodeCo employee on their way to Costco St. to save some dollars. But then a ghost tempts you to save the TOP STOPS instead, and now you're at the Strangest Range where the un-suns hang darkly in the sky.
Pub Adventure! (2021)
In this small adventure, your pub is deserted. Your customers were scared away by the ghost of the previous landlord, and he won't stop haunting the place until he gets a zombie cocktail. Easy.
Puddles on the Path (2003)
In this game where proverbs are magical spells, you play as an apprentice to Larumis the Sorcerer. After two years in his service, you're on the road home for a well-earned summer vacation when, through an iron gate in a stately stone wall, you see a mysterious garden. You forgot all about curiosity killing the cat.
The Pumpkin (1998)
Your name is Bob. You've come to Neil deMause's New York City apartment, but he doesn't seem to be home. Then the wicked carved pumpkin on the stoop threatens your wife and tells you to do whatever it wants or else.
The Pumpkin Contest (2000)
It's Hallowe'en and you've created a masterpiece pumpkin to end all pumpkins for the annual Brockville Pumpkin Carving Contest. Unforunately, your arch-nemesis Milton has carved the most amazing pumpkin you've ever seen. His pumpkin is definitely going to win the contest. What are you going to do about it?
The Purple Pearl (2023)
In this small fantasy two-player puzzlefest, the Purple Pearl of Luck has been stolen from the kingdom, and you two volunteered to help get it back. To test your capabilities, the king imprisons you in separate cells where you must solve puzzles and cooperate with each other until you both have escaped.
Put-Peep(TM) (2023)
In this spooky autobiographical tale, you play as a Technical Artist at Jetpack Games. You're in the office late at night for two reasons. First, you need to find the Peep(tm) that Mercer hid then hide it again for Jessy to find. Second, you need to fix that bug in your code that's making the dragon misbehave in your latest game.
The Queen of Swords (2003)
In this one-room art piece, you play as a woman in a reserved room at the local library where you and your husband, David, will practise using electric fencing equipment. There's quite a lot of it, and you're not sure what order to put everything on or what connects to what. David, of course, will try to help.
Quest for the Magic Healing Plant (1995, 1996, and 2002)
In this simple game, you play as a father whose daughter Crystal is very ill. You've heard that there's a magic plant nearby that can cure any illness, but you've never seen it. It's Crystal's last chance. Find that magic plant and cure her.
The Quest of the Golden Banana (2004)
In this large game, you decide to explore the famous Eerhtsdat Caves on a whim. You'll find several strange tablets, befriend a woman named Sarah, ride a ship in an underground lake, time travel in a Tardis, disturb a ghost, and carry the Golden Banana of Discord to Mount Doom!
A Quiet Evening at Home (2010)
In this slice of life, you play as a homeowner returning home after a day of work. You have an urgent need to use the bathroom at first, but the rest of your evening is more relaxing. Exercise your hamster, make dinner, take out the trash, play with your laptop, then go to bed.
Quite Queer Night Near (2019)
In this small surreal wordplay game, you play as someone who foolishly ate some Far Fight Marmite and, as a result, you were carried away to a Blight Blear Bight Bier. It's really scary! Craft alliterative phrases that rhyme with other alliterative phrases to win your way back to safety and sensibility.
Rainbow Bridge (2017)
In this tiny game, you play as the angel Gabriel in an isolated cabin with your lover, a mortal man named Demeter. Because of an unexpected crisis, you must now return to the celestial plane. But to get there, you must first recharge your specter with all seven colors of the rainbow, if you can find them all.
Ralph (1996)
In this game, you play as a dog, trying to find a bone you buried somewhere. The neighbor's annoying cat, a young boy named Christopher Robin, and a bigger human named Carl will unwittingly help you in this task.
Ralph (2001)
In this miniscule story, you play as someone who thought taking a course in basket weaving would help you learn a new skill and meet girls, but this assignment is really stupid and you're starring in a show in half an hour across town. Just finish your homework already.
Ramón and Jonathan (2002)
This small story takes place on space station Tithonus. The main tribunal has just read its verdict: Ramón and Jonathan, also known as the People's Friends, the hangman who killed so many people, are formally condemned, but they will also go unpunished. The trial audience is angry, but only your friend, Iliana of the "Justice Now" movement, is equipped to do anything about it.
Reality Show (2003)
In this short game, you play as one of five players in a TV game show, but only one of you is real. Explore the vicinity and earn points by discovering what is real and what isn't real. The first player to return to the gateway with 1000 points is the winner.
Recorded (2015)
In this short story, you play as someone who wakes up voiceless in a perplexing set of rooms floating in the middle of the void. Most of the rooms have messages inscribed in them. Are the messages for you? Or from you? What are you expected to do?
Recursive Occlusion (2012)
This analytical and erudite choice-based work, based on Sandifer's blog, is about the "Logopolis" story arc of the Doctor Who television series, and also about the socio-politics of the UK in the 1980s. It begins with a word-unit palindrome and describes a fantastical travelogue where the plot, story, acting, direction, impact, metaphors, etc. of "Logopolis" are discussed at length.
Red Door Yellow Door (2023)
In this horror game, four girls have gathered together in a circle. Claire will try to picture a door while her older sister Emily chants "red door, yellow door". Claire, dreaming, sees a glen with two doors, and tells the others about it. Explore the dreamworld as you will, but beware of the man in a suit.
Red Moon (2008)
In this short one-room game, you play as a young former football player somehow trapped by fear in a wooden hut with your sister. It's frighteningly dark in the hut, save for the red light that shines through holes in the ceiling, hinting at the unimaginable horrors that lurk outside.
Reddex (2020)
In this small game, you play as a bored IT worker who gets a message to visit reddex.app. You do so and find yourself in a cliché text adventure. Find coins and rocks and kill a dragon!
Redux (2023)
In this game, you play as someone who can't tell if their eyes are open or not. Your surroundings keep changing. Sometimes you're lying on a lawn, wracked with pain; or you're in a starship, red lights flashing; or you're in a greenhouse with lush plants; or you're in the RAM space of a computer, watching data zoom by. Something's wrong and you have to fix it.
Reg and the Kidnapped Fairy (2022)
In this small silly game, you play as Reg, the Good Werewolf. You love your family, you love your tacos, and you love to punch bad guys into space. And that's all you need to know.
The Relentless Adventures of Captain Speedo, Episode 112 - Alert on Aleph V! (2001)
In this one-turn one-room game, you again play as the heroic space adventurer, Captain Speedo. In this episode, he's on Aleph V's largest moon to repel a deadly meteor shower. His sidekick, Jarb the Inventor, told him exactly what to do, but you didn't hear him because the radio announcer interrupted him!
The Relentless Adventures of Captain Speedo, Episode 14 - Victim of the Vacuum! (2001)
In this kids show, you play as the valiant hero Captain Speedo. He's in his Comm Room awaiting an email crash course in "Vacuum Repair" which shall allow him to finally repair the main thruster of his trusty spaceship, the Scarlet Arrow.
The Relentless Adventures of Captain Speedo, Episode 16: Let them "heat" cake! (2001)
As the hero, Captain Speedo, you are piloting a space barge filled with precious antiques to Provolone Prime. But suddenly, a powerful forcefield starts dragging the barge towards the nearest sun! This is a nefarious plan from some villian or your name is not Captain Speedo!
The Relentless Adventures of Captain Speedo Episode 42 - So Long, and Thanks for All the Books (2001)
In this tribute to Douglas Adams, you once again play as Captain Speedo, the hero of a popular sci-fi radio series. In the last episode, our hero's spaceship was captured by the evil crime lord, Lord Feeblekaterbrop. Powerless to fight him, you must now follow his order to find his childhood blankie hidden somewhere in this space complex.
Remedial Witchcraft (2019)
In this game, you play as Lina, the apprentice of the Witch of Howling Woods. While fetching the witch's crystal ball and tarot cards, you had an accident with illywort powder. Now you have to find the four things that escaped the witch's cabinet before she gets back. The cat, Sade, can help you.
Rent-a-Spy (2002)
You are Jane O'Connor, a professional spy employed by Rent-A-Spy. Your boss, Mr. Graham Darcy, has assigned you a new mission: secretly infiltrate Meramax's research facility and return with hard evidence proving they're developing a warfare virus. Be careful! Leave no traces of your visit!
Return to Ditch Day (2004)
You play as Doug Mittling, a middle manager for a tech company called Omegatron, which is in competition with a rather aggressive and larger tech company called Mitachron. That competition becomes more personal when both you and your Mitachron rival, Frosst Belker, are sent to recruit a senior student, Brian Stamer, at your alma mater, Caltech. For it seems Brian means to test his potential recruiters with a challenge: a Ditch Day stack. Brian will accept a job at the company of the rep who solves his stack first.
Return to the Stars (2021)
In this science fiction game, you play as a human soldier imprisoned in a cell by the Shwabolians, somewhere. Life became routine and dull. But for three days, you haven't seen anyone or any food. Find a way to escape this planet before you starve.
Revenge of the Chalupa (1999)
In this small game, you play as a bad-guy-stopper. You have come to this snowy baseball field to stop some bad guys from passing on some secret plans.
The Richard Mines (2017)
In this somewhat dull and minimalist game, you play as someone who was hiking through a forest. North of the forest, you find a dirt road leading to an abandoned underground facility. Explore the facility. Perhaps the experience will make you richer.
The Right Tool (2011)
You play as a gravedigger. You and your fellow gravediggers have buried the ancient tool, but unfortunately, the tomb's tablet is blank and after all the construction delays, everyone's forgotten what the ancient tool actually was. So, uh, how are you going to find out what tool it was?
Rings for Bony Fingers (1992)
You are being buried alive! Can you escape your coffin of death? If so, your nightmare has only begun. Descend the Steps of Doom. Enter the crypt in search of the ten rings of Zoltan. Elude the walking skeleton. And if you heed the words of the whispering skull, you may awake from this chilling nightmare.
Rippled Flesh (1996)
In this "interactive goosing", you play as a balding middle-aged man who wakes up in a desolate room, remembering only the number forty, a seductive women [sic], a tropical drink, and darkness. Exploring, you seem to be in a veritable hotel of horrors. Perhaps there's some meaning behind it all, but really, you just want to find the exit.
Risorgimento Represso (2003, 2006)
You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a wizardly apprentice from the Oxbridge University in his reality but got you by mistake. Mm-yes. So you're going to be a wizard's apprentice until he can figure out how to send you back.
The Ritual of Purification (1998)
In this small surreal fantasy game, you play as a human spellcaster/adventurer who has separated their mind from their body in order to purify themselves. You begin your astral-mythic-dream travels at an ivory gateway under a starless sky. A red-winged Daemon, male and nude, lands on the arch to watch what you do.
Riverside (2008)
In this incomplete mystery, you play as a man named Mike who feels obligated to investigate the murder of his psychiatrist friend John. CAUTION: Contains read-authors'-minds issues and an aburpt troll ending.
The robocop_is_bleeding scenario (2009)
In this tiny surreal game that was written as a sample game, you play as someone in a scary room with a golden idol, a pedestal, a ruby, a cow, and a chicken. Let's assume you want to leave the scary room.
Robodud (2003)
In this short story, you play as a Robodud, that is, a failed Robodude. Deemed useless, you have regained awareness inside a massive junkyard of scrap metal where countless other roboduds have been sent to die. Can you escape? And what's wrong with you?
robot gardening (2008)
In this very small game, you play as a robot. Your task is to water the beautiful flowers on this hilltop, even though water is quite dangerous to you. The flowers must be watered.
A Rock and a Hard Place (1999)
You play as someone who can barely see or move. There's a hard stone slab in front of you and a granite boulder pins your legs behind you. You're literally stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Rock, Paper, Scissors (2022)
In this one-room joke game, you are a player in the largest Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament ever. Note that this minimalist work offers almost no player agency: you can either attack your opponent over and over again, or quit.
Romeo, Juliet and the Dog (2002)
In this short game, very loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, you play as Romeo Montague. You're madly in love with Juliet Capulet. She's really hot and she says she loves you more than Dr Pepper, but she won't let you squeeze her melons.
Roofed (2010)
In this game, you play as Toph Karrento. You and your older brother Anton are on this rooftop, looking for valuable silk left behind in high places by the giant mutant spiders before they all died off twenty years ago. Unfortunately, the roof access door closed and locked while you were trying to climb the chimney. Whether you find any silk or not, you're also going to need to find another way off this roof.
Room serial (2012)
In this short surreal game, you are but a shadow of your former self. You don't know who you are or what happened, but you do know you're in the 7th room. Your only powers are to look or to examine. An open green door beckons you, but you must first regain the power to enter before you can use it.
A Rope of Chalk (2020)
This is a story about a sidewalk chalk tournament in 2011 that went disastrously wrong. It's told from several points of view, and some of the protagonists experience drug-induced hallucinations. After the story is over, you can tour Ryan Veeder's office, examine some of his research materials, and learn how everyone is doing in 2020.
ROWR! (2000)
In this short surreal game, it begins with you celebrating the new dekamillennium and getting lost by following a hottie in red. Venues will change abruptly, you'll briefly interact with an "EGG" and a prominently featured dinosaur, and then the game will end, saying this farce is finally over.
THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PR1ME (2023)
In this sci-fi horror game, you play as Colonel J.T. Thomas investigating the ruins of an underwater research facility on Saturn's moon, Titan. Biofarm wants something called 73-Jon, and it's your job to find and retrieve it. Lucky you.
Content warnings: foul language, physical and psychological abuse of children and animals, drug abuse.
Runes (2004)
In this incomplete work, you play as an herbalist who wants to take samples of everything from the forest. Bark, berries, flowers, leaves, that sort of thing. Collect as much as you can, then quit.
The Sacred Shovel of Athenia (2023)
In this small fantasy game, you play as an adventurer who has finally found the sacred shovel of Athenia. There's a cat here too, ugh. But before you can take the shovel for your king, a "catometer" wraps itself to your wrist. Only a true cat lover can take the shovel, and you're not one of those just yet.
Safehouse (2010)
You play as someone named Jones and you're in your underground bunker, safe from the deadly Actinic rays. But you're so bored! Why did you forget your spellbook? At least you remember some of your spells.
Sage Sanctum Scramble (2020)
In this wordplay fantasy game, you play as someone visiting the Sage Sanctum. Quorbus tells you that by solving puzzles, you'll collect keywords that will aid you in defeating a monstrous zarblot that threatens the Sanctum. The more keywords the better, so start solving!
Saied (1998)
In this very short story, you play as an Arabian man torn up over your ex-lover, Indihar, who cold-heartedly dumped you for another man three months ago. Yesterday, she called out of the blue and said she wants to see you again. The emotional pain paralyzed you with fear all night, but now it is time to make a decision.
Samurai Tea Room (2003)
You play as a young Samurai, ready to prove his skills. You have your katana. The Apprentice's Toaster and a loaf of bread stand ready. The Master waits to see if you can pass this final challenge.
Santa's Sleigh Ride (2008)
In this very small and easy game, you play as Santa Claus. You have just one last house to deliver presents to, the Madisons', and then you and your trusty Reindeer Brigade can fly home for a well-deserved rest.
Santa's Trainee Elf (2020-2021)
In this pleasant Christams game, you play as Eldrid, a 16-year-old elf in Santa's Workshop. It's the day before Christmas Eve, and Santa wants you to complete some last minute chores, mostly making toys for the children on his list. He also wants you to ask Mrs Claus in the kitchen and Volodar in the stable if they something done as well.
Sardoria (2003)
You play as a young villager who is attempting to warn the king about an imminent attack at nightfall. The castle guards, not believing your tale, have imprisoned you in the castle's wine cellar. You must escape and get to the king!
Save Princeton (1991-2002)
In this game, you're a tourist at Princeton University, NJ, but the guided tour bores you, so you wander off into a dormitory. After hearing some unexpected gunfire outside, you soon learn that an invading army has taken over the campus. Someone brave needs to save Princeton, and that someone is you!
Save the Cheshire Cat! (2014)
In this game, while at the old town book fair, your friend Mario tells you that the games club mascot, the Cheshire Cat, is missing! The club can't organize events without it, so you must find it! Mario suspects it was kidnapped for its fur; other cats have disappeared and there are rumors of a fur trade.
Scarlet Portrait Parlor (2020)
In this minimalist story: Darkness has fallen. There is a loom. You carry a heavy guilt.
Scary House Amulet! (2002)
You have green hair! Your name is Britney!! Legend says there is a valuable, powerful Amulet in the house, which may be retrieved by anyone who is daring! Do you dare?
Screw the Boston Tea Party (2001)
In this game, you play as Mother Theresa, secretly employed by American revolutionaries to sow discord. Arrogant English aristocrats are sailing into Boston harbour with their luxurious tea! It's time to teach those pampered fops a lesson!
Scroll Thief (2014-2015)
You play as a student of GUE Tech, frustrated that you have yet to inscribe a single spell into your spellbook after two years of study. And now there are rumors that magic is failing and GUE Tech will close. There's only one thing to do if you still want to be an enchanter: break into the library and steal some spell scrolls.
A scurvy gift for Bosn Chuck (2000)
Arr arr and ahoy there, skipper! It be the occasion to honor the chief bos'n Chuck Schemendiman with a retirement party! So ye've decided to get him a present. But what to get for a man who has one wooden leg, the gout, a glass eye, and scurvy?
A Scurvy of Wonders (2011)
You play as a person on a yacht who is dying from scurvy. Apparently pursuing a diet of just pizza, chicken fingers, and beer for nearly two months wasn't your best idea. A tiny amount of vitamin C can save you, but you can barely move. And here come the hallucinations.
The Sea of Night (1997)
You play as a cargo driver of a one-person spaceship, The Shooting Star. While en route to Io, your ship collides with something and you crash inside the landing bay of an alien ship. Your future is about to change.
The Sealed Room (2012)
In this tiny game, you play as a man who briefly meets an old man on a park bench before he inexplicably teleports you away. When the magical mist dissolves, you find yourself in an exit-less stone chamber with a unicorn and a dragon who have wounded each other. Perhaps if you talk to them, you can find a way out of this sealed room.
Search for the Lost Ark (2023)
In this religious adventure, you play as Jean Rousseau, a French seminarian; that is, a trainee priest. Local legend says The Ark of the Covenant was hidden by a priest in your village, but he died and now no one knows exactly where it is. The Church Council asks you to find the Ark and return it to the church's altar.
Search for the Sacred Stone (1986, 2005)
In this old school text adventure, you play as a graduate student in Archaeology. One of your professors offers you an opportunity to earn valuable experience, prestige, and an early degree: bring back a rare blue-quartz diamond hidden deep in the jungle by a hostile tribe. You eagerly accept the dangerous challenge!
Seasonal Apocalpyse Disorder (2020)
In this fantasy game, you play as a druid sent back in time to prevent the Order of the Fiery Doom from enacting a ritual that will destroy everything in flames. Using the right plants and a mystical cocoon, you can time-travel to all four seasons in your mission to stop this apocalypse.
Secret Agent (2001)
A mad robot has taken over the MoonBase and threatens aircraft everywhere. You, the world's premiere secret agent, have been sent to deepest Guatemala to fetch the one thing that can stop this mechanical menace. Good luck!
Secret of the Starry Depths (2020)
In this short game, you play as a wannabe cave explorer. You've heard there's a treasure to be found in a nearby cave system. It seems like an easy enough challenge, so you decide to give it a go.
The Secret of Vegibal Island (2019)
In this silly but confusing game inspired by The Secret of Monkey Island, you play as Buyshrug Bridgeman, a tourist in search of total boredom, preferably with booze. The jungle island you're currently visiting has a suitable holiday resort, but you need to earn three pirate-themed wristbands before they'll let you in.
Seeker of Magic (2019)
In this short adventure, you play as Rowan of Bunglewood Downs, a would-be thief and a seeker of magic. You intend to find and enter the Cave of Magic and take its magic for yourself.
La Seine (2009)
In this gentle work of exploration based on the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat, you play as a tourist. You don't remember how you got to this park on the river Seine, but you decide to stay and explore a bit.
Sell-Out (2003)
In this small game, you play an adventurer who, after days of searching and hacking your way through the jungle, has finally found this clearing containing an ottoman. It's a very nice ottoman too. You can probably accomplish something with it.
Sentencing Mr Liddell (2011)
In this surreal story inspired by Alice in Wonderland, you play as Alistair Liddell, owner of the hat shop founded by your father forty years ago and where you employ your Uncle Marty and Cousin Dermot. But now it's closing time and you promised to take Catherine and your two-year old daughter Liz to the funfair. But on your way there, you and Cat have a spat and then Liz's stroller rolls away and falls into the river!
Service With a Smile (2000)
In this miniscule one-room game, you've been waiting twenty minutes just to get seated at this busy Chinese restaurant. How much longer should you wait to be served?
The Seven Doctors (1998)
In this game inspired by Doctor Who, you play as the Seventh Doctor. Old foes have captured your previous six incarnations. Rescue the Doctors by giving each a time-ring; they will return to when and where they belong.
Several Other Tales from Castle Balderstone (2020)
Yet again, you are Ryan Veeder's invited guest to an evening of spooky storytelling at Castle Balderstone. From the world of Marshal Trevino, Antonio F. Karnack will narrate the story of a health inspector. Miss Shiroiwa's third grade class from Silas Elementary will present "The Banshee's Curse". Elmir Divkovic will read another of his intricate vampire-tales. And you there, YOU will tell a story as well.
Shades of Gray: An Adventure in Black and White (1992, 1997)
This large game, co-written by seven authors, begins with you waking up amnesiac and running away from vampires. What's happening? Are you in a city or in a medieval story? Can the gypsy kabbalist really restore your memories? This game heavily features the American Civil War, the legend of Robin Hood, and the politics and spirit loa of Haiti.
A Shadow of Helpfulman (2011)
You play as Kevin, a graduate student. You share an office with two other graduates: Jim and Molly. Molly Malone is the most beautiful creature in the world. You'd love to ask her out but you're so tongue-tied around her. Jim doesn't have that problem. How can you stop being a shadow of "Helpfulman" Jim?
Shaka! (2023)
In this small game, you play as an office worker. After arriving at your cubicle, you belatedly remember that it's Hawaiian shirt day, and you forgot to dress properly. Oh no! You forgot to get dressed! You're only in your undies. You need to get home quick without anyone seeing you naked, but how?
Shallow (2012)
In this empty work, your character could be anyone in a bottomless void with shifting voices and swirling colours. There's three locations of static prose and nothing else.
Shangri La (2002)
In this short surreal game, you play as a PEZ™ dispenser about to go on a date with a Red-Hot Ball'O'Fire™ in Candyland. At least, that's how it begins...
Sheep Crossing (2020)
In this short game based on a classic puzzle, you must transport a cabbage, a sheep, and a bear across a river using a small boat that can only hold you and one passenger. You are taking them all to Grandmother's house.
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels (1987-1988)
It's Saturday, June 18, 1887 in London, England. Everyone is bustling in preparation for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. You play as Dr Watson, called back to Baker Street to assist your friend, the famous private detective Sherlock Holmes. A cunning thief has stolen the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London and left a trail of riddle clues for you to follow. Using all your wits and skills, you must solve the riddles, solve the crime, and recover the Jewels in time for the Jubilee or all is lost.
Ship of Whimsy (2011)
In this short game, you are on board the Ship of Whimsy which is populated by an assortment of fantastic creatures. It is also docked and in no condition to sail which the faerie queen finds most vexing. Perhaps you can solve the ship's problems so it can finally set sail?
Sigil Reader (Field) (2016)
In this short game, you play as a sigil reader for DRIP, the Defense Research Institute of Perigosan. This means you can see magical symbols that enchant what they're on. You've just regained consciousness in the station lobby, unsure what just happened or how long you were out.
The Silence of the Gods (2011)
In this story you play as Francesco (Cesco) Mancini. But because you opened the wrong door, you're now chained to a chair. Rudolph Mancini and these three scugnizzi are about to torture you and then kill you.
The Simple Tale (2011)
This incomplete tale begins with a dream — an alien pilot runs out of lip balm — interrupted by the upstairs neighbor's loud music. Your plan to tell them off is interrupted by a nearby crash: your building is filling with smoke! Unable to escape, you lose consciousness and awaken in the denuded shell of your studio apartment, now high up in a forest? Exploring the forest, you climb a beanstalk to God's temple, where God himself tells you to find his missing golden eggcup.
The Singular, and Historically Inaccurate, Misadventures of Nobeard: Would-Be Scourge of the Caribbean (1996)
In this demo game, you play as Nicholas Partridge, a beardless boy who ran away from the orphanage to join the crew of the William Gates and sail to the colonies. Heavy rain forced you to seek shelter in an alley, but now it's time to find a way to board the magnificent vessel.
Sinking the Lily Jane (1999)
You've been sent to sink the Lily Jane, the biggest oil tanker in the Vuorinen Oil fleet. You have a pair of bombs and scant instructions: attach the limpet to the hull in a place where it will disable the ship, and place the computer-bomb in contact with electrical circuitry to trigger it.
Sins Against Mimesis (1997)
You play as a non-descript someone who's lonely since your lover Black left. You feel you should go and do something, but a devil won't let you leave the house until you show him your sins. Sins against what? Well, you do have a mimesis plant. Figure it out.
Sisychickenphus (1998)
In this short pun-filled game, you play as Sisychickenphus, the most persistent chicken in the world. It's time to shoulder a new burden and solve another Eternal Question: WHY are all these chickens crossing the road?
Six Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow (2015)
In this gothic vignette, you play as Rinaldo di Gorgonzola, short a hundred florins on rent money. Your friend Lorenzo says he'll give you the florins if you spend the night at Count Ruggino's house, which is supposedly haunted after his suicide. You don't believe in ghosts, so why not?
Six Stories (1999)
After losing control of your car during a blizzard in the mountains of British Columbia, you make your way to rundown shack and sleep. You wake up elsewhere and soon encounter a mouse, a pair of drawing compasses, a tin robot, a pirate monkey, and a pocketwatch — all human-sized, alive, drinking tea, and telling stories. They need you to lead them away from the Darkness.
Skipping Breakfast (1999)
In this short one-room game, you are a rabbit tied to a tree in a moonlit clearing. You need to escape before you're roasted over a fire for a wolf's breakfast.
The SkyCrane (2016)
In this short story, you play as someone emerging from the ocean outside a deserted city, the SkyCrane looming far overhead in the upper atmosphere. Two endings.
The Sleeping Princess (2008)
You play as a pageboy in the kingdom of Mandarinia, mopping the castle floors including the floor in the princess's bedchamber. Princess Keisha has been sleeping for a year ever since a witch cast a sleeping spell on her. It'd be great if you could wake her. You'd never have to mop a floor again.
SLUDGE: A SpeedIF Adventure (1999)
In this game, you play as E.J. Sludge, private eye, formerly P.D. Sludge, superspy until the, er, incident. But today, you receive an urgent phone call telling you to stop superspy Mercury Schwartzkopf from delivering a package in your town. The fate of the world is suddenly in your hands.
A small & simple text adventure (2019)
This is a tiny two-room game intended to demonstrate the very basics of interactive fiction. You begin in room 1 carrying a blue key. You see someone using a computer and there's a blue door to the north.
So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest (2021)
In this short game, you play as a new secret agent who, lured by the promise of easy money, agreed to deliver a very confidential envelope to someone in an upper-class house. So far, you've snuck into the kitchen via a side window. You don't know who you're looking for, but you were told further instructions can be found inside the house.
So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh? (2014)
In this tutorial game, you are playing as Robin Monaghan, a high school senior exploring an abandoned house. The game begins with you in the attic, trying to get a better look at something shiny, but instead you fall through an unexpected hole into the bedroom below.
The Sofa At The End Of The Universe (2001)
In this homage to Douglas Adams, you play as Dirk Gently, the world's only holistic detective. Your landlord has ordered you to move your new sofa that the movers left in the stairwell, but there doesn't seem to be any possible way to move the sofa up or down from there.
Sohoek Ekalmoe (2020)
In this short story, you play as a plant called Sohoek Ekalmoe, "one who sunders the paving stones". Your enemies cast you into this deep shaft a year ago, but now it's your season to grow.
Solid Leather (2004)
In this very short game, you play as an old bull forced to take sides in a human war. King Trilobyte has kidnapped a virgin cow so he can make a minotaur to use against his enemies. You can stop his evil scheme by mating with her yourself.
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair (2015)
In this story about petty office politics, you play as Mr Garry Horrible, the event coordinator of the Insect Health Fund, a non-profit that studies and treats insect diseases. But what concerns you now is that Alicia has stolen your chair again, taking your perfectly-maintained 90JL and replacing it with her noisy, less-manueverable chair.
The Song of the Mockingbird (2021)
In this western adventure, you play as "Boots" Taylor, the singing cowboy known as the Texas Mockingbird. Last night, the Black Blade and his men robbed the dance hall, took your gun, and took Rosa. You pursued them, but now they've ambushed you in this arroyo!
Soul-Searching (2002)
In this very short game, you play as Eric, a man weary with life. But thanks to an unknown great-uncle and the Seelie Court, there is a plan to save you. If you are willing, meet the soul technician waiting for you in the Square Wheel.
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1993)
In this charming Eastern-themed game, you play as a generic male hero named Ginseng. Black Dragon has returned to the World Beyond and its people are banished. You must go forth and deal slyly with the other dragons, acquire their tokens, and bring hope back to the World.
SpAdventure (1996)
This variant of the 350-point version of Adventure includes Balances-style spells like frotz and rezrov. You are a spellcasting adventurer. Explore the caves, find all 15 treasures, deposit them in the building, and maximize your score.
Sparkle (2014)
In this strange game where you can change things into other things, you play as an apprentice named Xia. You've hiked up Mount Shanshan and now need to get a cable car working so you can reach the mountain top. A hotel is nearby. Perhaps you should meditate.
Spectrum (2011)
In this surreal toy game, you are at the center of a color wheel representing 25 states of mind. Near you are a diary entry, a map, and four broken statues. Find a way to repair the statues so the diary entry makes sense.
Speed IF #2 (1998)
A cab has dropped you off on the street near Neil DeMause's apartment in New York. You're here because a jack o'lantern was left outside your door with a scary note inside saying that your meeting with your wife, Sarah, will be delayed... permanently.
Speed5 (1999)
You are secret agent .0000008. Your superior V has ordered you out to the visitors dugout at the University of Spam's baseball diamond to meet a contact. There you will receive your orders for another pointless mission where you fail to get the girl, and do nothing to affect the balance of world power.
SpeedIF 11, part six (2000)
You play as someone who's finally got the dead body into the basement. You're going to get rid of it in that huge furnace. You just need to get it to work first. (Part 6 of a 6-part series.)
SpeedIF 19 (2003)
You play as someone newly-dead. Because of some unrepented sins, you have a few tasks to complete before you can be admitted into Heaven. You must bring light to your soul, acquire decency, and kiss an alligator.
A speedIF O entry (2001)
In this one-room game, you play as a comic book fan at an astrology convention in Alaska who wants author Neil Gaiman to sign their Sandman comic book collection. One tiny problem: he's hungry.
SpeedIF of Destiny or Nothing, Punk (2003)
In this short Orwellian tale, your dreams are interrupted by the phone. You are needed at work. You are tired. You dare not tell anyone about your dreams. You are needed at work.
Spellbound (2016)
In this wordplay game, you play as a graduate student of the Institute of Orthographic Studies. Professor Spruce has given you a mission: find all 26 (twenty-six!) letters out in the wilderness of Phoenicia!
(Note: In the IntroComp release, you will obtain somewhat fewer than 26 letters.)
Spellbreaker (1985)
You play as the young enchanter from the previous games Enchanter and Sorcerer, but more powerful and respected than before. An unexpected crisis with magic itself leads you on a quest into hidden parts of the land of Zork to find the legendary Cubes of Foundation, powerful items which can alter the laws of reality. And what if you succeed? Will you be known as the Mage who restored magic or as the Spellbreaker?
Spitting Crumbs (2000)
In this short surreal game, you play as someone who has a piece of bread but would prefer to eat some toast. With some butter and jam on it, if you please. Expect many explosions.
A Spliff in Time (2002)
In this silly and surreal little game, you play as the anthropomorphic superhero known as Super Skunk. Toking up some choice substances has Unhinged you in Time, so it's time to go on a Mission.
Spy in the Snow (1999)
You are John Keats, alias Jack Alias. You're 6'2", have the consumption, and are the greatest spy the Yukon has ever known.
The Spy Who Always Wears Gloves Now (1999)
In this tiny game, you play as a private detective waiting in a dark alley outside a television studio. You're waiting for the signal.
Squeaky on the Moon (2001)
In this rather silly game, you play as Alvin the Chipmunk, who lives in an apartment on the Moon. June, the stinky lady that lives down the hall, who is also your landlady and also on the Moon, well... she wants you to rescue her pet cat Squeaky who fell into her computer on the Moon.
Stairs (2000)
You play as someone who needs to move a dead body down this spacious and majestic staircase. Unfortunately, your sister, Katelyn, is playing "Stairway Hopscotch". How are you going to get the body past her without her seeing it? (Part 3 of a 6-part series.)
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (2020)
In this short story, you are playing as Isaac Newton. In 1673, Isaac receives a letter from Anna Dalton, a witch in Epping Forest, inviting him to visit her regarding an previously unknown phenomenon. He is skeptical, but he does decide to visit her.
Starry Seeksorrow (2015)
You play as Bonnie Blithe, a child's doll made of cloth and ceramic. The child's parents, who are skilled magicians, enchanted you to come to life whenever the child's life is in danger. You awaken; the child lies comatose. You must save the child from the dire bloom called... the starry seeksorrow.
Statue (1999)
In this small, simple art piece, you are traveller who finds a king's statue in the desert, its head broken off and half-buried in the sand. What will you do?
Sting of the Wasp (2004)
You play as Julia Hawthorne, a wealthy and attractive socialite. You're at the Pine Meadows country club, having a bit of fun with Keith—he works in the Pro Shop—when you hear the click of a camera! This won't do. You'll have to make sure any photographs or gossip can't hurt your marriage or social standing.
Caution: This game contains sexual references and some strong language, but it is not a pornographic game.
Stink or Swim (2009)
You play as Joanie Bennet, "former proud Olympian, current children's swimming instructor." A skunk has gatecrashed your Minnow & Mommy class and is now swimming in the pool. It's up to you to deal with the animal.
Storm Over London (2014)
In this short story, you play as a young woman driving home in a rainstorm but the GPS is offline and you get lost and then your car stalls in front of an old house. You need to call a tow truck, but your cell phone has no reception. Hopefully whoever lives here will let you use their phone.
The Story of Morris the Chicken Being Helped by a Squirrel (1998)
You play as a squirrel. Morris, a chicken, wants to cross a busy road and hopes you can help her do it.
The Story of the Shinoboo (2015)
In this small installment of the tiny ninjas saga, you play as the tiny red ninja on Halloween. Find a costume and go Trick or Treating!
A Stroll on the Roof (2001)
You play as someone working overtime on New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, your laptop stopped working and you haven't been able to fix it yet. While taking a relaxing stroll on the roof, you wonder if you should just give up and go home.
Stuff of Legend (2020)
In this pleasant comedy, you play as Ichabod Stuff, and after a very bad day, you are now the former village idiot of Swineford. Dejected, you walk home to the Jackson farm. You need to find a new job. After discussing some ideas with Annabelle, you decide to become a knight.
Stupid Creek. Stupid Christmas. (2011)
In this short two-room game, you play as a teenager who needs to get her stupid little brother Tim and two Christmas presents across this stupid river, but this stupid rowboat can only carry one of them at a time.
Stupid Kittens (2000)
In this bizarre game, you play as Fuzzles, a stupid kitten. In life, you will be tormented and killed by your owner, a girl named Karen, for the amusement of the internet. In the afterlife, you will be tossed about by offended deities until you're reincarnated in Jennifer Love Hewitt's house with a mission. It won't end well. (Caution: This game contains poop jokes.)
stupidgame (2001)
You play as a bomb-disposal expert suffering from stress and saddled with Zarathrusta, a ex-demonic figment of your imagination. The agency has sent you into the basement of this bomb-filled building, and the basement itself is filled with nitroglycerine. How are you going to deal with this?
Submarine Sabotage (2023)
In this game, you play as Seaman Recruit Williams of the USS Ibis, a US Navy submarine submerged near Alaska. Spotting some unknown whitish gas, you quickly dive into the airlock and close the hatch behind you. Now what do you do?
The Sueño (2015)
You play as Benji Evans, an average male university student in Philadelphia. You're usually broke, so you've come to the local hospital to earn some money by participating in a sleep study that will test the side effects of a new medication called The Sueño. It means dream in Spanish.
The Suffering Supplicant (2002)
You play as a supplicant on a pilgrimage. The Eldest ordered you to save your sect of Zeeblism from excommunication by returning from Sporandia with a bottle of Ouzo. You'll need help, luck, and prayers to complete your mission.
A Sugared Pill (2005)
This story takes place in Edinburgh. After attending an enjoyable fundraising night at a social club where you won a stuffed blue bear in the karaoke contest, some nutter with a gun chases you into an alleyway and you're forced to kill the thug in self-defense. You don't know who wants you dead or why but you're going to find out.
Sunset Over Savannah (1997)
In this game, you play as an office worker on vacation on a beach in Savannah. This is your last day of a very blissful vacation, and you realize you really really hate your job. You could quit, but should you? You're conflicted. Is there more to life than constant, mind-numbing labor?
The Surprising Case of Brian Timmons (2013)
In this game, you play as a rude American private eye in the 1920's who specializes in solving occult crimes. Your client, Mrs Timmons, just committed her son Brian to a sanatorium. She thinks Brian has gone insane and wants you to find out what's wrong with him.
Suveh Nux (2007)
You play as a servant to a man who is implied to be a wizard. In the course of your duties, an unknown assailant locks you inside your master's vault. You will need to learn some magic to escape.
Take the Dog Out (2021)
In this short slice-of-life game, you play as a young woman in her home. You need to take your dog, Muffin, for a walk in the park. Now where did you put her leash?
The Tale of The Crazy Diaper Man (2012)
In this short, minimalist, and nonsensical game, you play as the crazy diaper man and you have just stolen the magic muffin! Run away!
The tale of the cursed eagle (2013)
In this short escape game, you play as an eagle cursed into a man's shape, pursued by a black beast created from your own siphoned despair. Run! Run and find safety somewhere soon before the beast catches you and indifferently tears you apart. Multiple endings.
Tall Tales in the Big Easy (2001)
In this small game, you're staying at the Marriott Hotel in New Orleans for the Bread Artists' Convention. Unfortunately, you can't sleep and you're suffering from Sculptor's Block. But there must be something you can do in New Orleans at 4 AM.
Tanker and Webb (1999)
You play as James Webb, a stowaway on an oil tanker bound for Alaska. You're not "cheap". You're "generosity-challenged". Unfortunately, the ship hit a large rock and seems to be sinking. Jim, lad, you'd best be getting off of this boat.
Tapestry (1996)
You play as Timothy Hunter, recently a mortal, now dead. The angel Morningstar tells you that your soul is in jeopardy. Using a three-paneled tapestry, he shows you how your actions caused the deaths of three women, then offers you a second chance to change the past before you leave this world forever.
Taunting Donut (2008)
You play as a prisoner and test subject, resigned to your fate. Today's meal is a donut tied to the ceiling, way out of reach. Must be another test. Can you get that taunting donut?
Taxes (2000)
In this tiny minimal game, you play as a citizen of the US of A. A smug government lackey from the IRS is at the front door for YOUR hard-earned money. (Caution: Unpleasant language.)
Tea and Toast (2014)
In this pleasant one-room slice of life, you play as Maria. You've just woken up and entered the kitchen. You want to make some tea and toast before the alarm clock goes off and fully wakes Lily.
Tea Ceremony (2014)
In this game of diplomacy, you play as an inept junior member of the diplomatic corps. This week, you need to convince Brc'nl, who is some sort of noble glob from Glorpon-42, to argue in Earth's favor in some trade deal. You may have to wear a silly hat.
Tears Keep Getting In My Dr. Pepper (1999)
You play as Mindy, a cute high-school cheer leader. Last night, your lover told you he was leaving you. Not thinking clearly, you chased after him, cried all night, and fell asleep in this tanker's lifeboat. You're still bummed, but you're all cried out now. Maybe. Now what?
Tears May Fall (1999)
In this small game, you play as a traveler. Today, in October 1904, you're visiting Paris. It's a rather windy day, but you still wanted to visit the top of the Eiffel Tower anyway.
The Temple (2002)
You play as someone plagued by nightmares of falling, but in tonight's nightmare, you've somehow landed in in a strange alien city. With the time-lost Charles Bristow, you'll uncover the city's dark secrets, see unspeakable monsters, and learn of an evil ritual in the city's temple that must be stopped at all costs.
The Temple of Shorgil (2018)
In this game, you are a Pirothologist, ie: someone who studies the ancient Pirothians. You have discovered the Temple of Shorgil, built about 1600 years ago by the famous Kitral and dedicated to the legendary hero Shorgil. Records say at sunset on the equinox, the light will reveal what the temple guards, and you have all day to explore before that happens.
Tenth Plague (2011)
In this Biblical game, you are a sentient cloud of destructiveness. You were created by God to kill the first-born son of every household in this Egyptian city, except God's chosen, who are to be spared. Parts of yourself are already performing their duty elsewhere in the city; this part of you only needs to kill five male children.
The Tenyaka Memorial of Vegreville (2003)
In this small game that parodies Teletubbies, Pokemon, and Scientology, you play as a Knight of Xenu, sworn enemy of Thetans. Your quest has led you to the world's largest Easter egg in Vegreville, Alberta. You will destroy the Thetans within the egg with Ukrainian Anime Cockfighting Monsters.
The Terrible, Old Manse (2010)
In this short treasure hunt, you play as someone duped into searching a terrible old manse. Your task is to find the three shards of old man Dee Ceased's funeral urn. Bring the completed urn back to the front hall to end the curse and win the game.
Tethered (2018)
In this story, you'll play as two characters: Charles Wong and Judith Robinson who begin the game climbing a mountain. As Charles, you are forced to cut Judith's rope when it pins your arm. Fortunately, Judith doesn't fall far, but that doesn't mean she's safe. As Judith, you will try to survive in the Swallet cave system while Charles goes to get help. Years later in his apartment, Charles will relive what he imagines Judith experienced.
Tex Bonaventure and the Temple of the Water of Life (2013)
In this homage to Indiana Jones, you play as Tex Bonaventure, an adventurer and treasure hunter. After three days of exploring the deep dark swamps of the Everglades, you've finally found your destination. You've found what the natives call Cukovcatv Em Oheskatv Vhesaketv, the Temple of the Water of Life.
Text Adventure Collector (2020)
In this minimalist-style adventure, you play as someone who wants to collect text adventures. Find ten text adventures and drop them in your basement library to win.
There Is No Bread (2000)
In this minimalist non-game and non-story, you are someone in a kitchen with a toaster. There is no bread — or anything else.
The Theta Point (2001)
You play as a spy. On the orders of your shadowy masters, you have snuck inside this moonbase to collect as many "points" from this secret laboratory as you can and then safely return with them.
Things (2004)
In this tiny one-room game, everything is a "thing". No other nouns are used. You just want to get inside the implemented rustic wooden structural sheltering thing.
This Is The Toaster (2000)
In this small and rather surreal game, you play as one of several characters that live on or in a gigantic toaster. If you visit the Future Plane, Aunt Krull will tell you what needs to be done: acquire the Amulet of Rotund Quickness and give it to Os Esker.
Thorfinn's Realm (1999)
In this old-school adventure game, you play as a Timejumping Adventurer's Club initiation candidate, sent back in time to 950 AD Normandy to bring back all the treasures there are to find there. Besides the challenges TAC has set up for you, you will also need to deal with some random elements such as Thorfinn Skullsplitter, the local Viking.
Those Annoying Aliens (2005)
In this small buggy adult adventure, you play as a working stiff, recently unemployed from the coffee shop because an alien starship just crashed through it. Guess it's time to wander around town and get some action with a nurse who will make you feel so much better, a naked secret agent named Chesty McBusty, and a sexy blue-skinned alien chick with unlimited energy.
Three Days Of Night (2015)
You play as Gwendolyn Starling, the foremost expert on radio astronomy, and one of a three-person team on the moon. After a bizarre accident kills your crewmates, you must find a way to survive the next three days before a rescue team can reach you, and if possible, discover what happened.
Three Steps to the Left (1998)
In this short game, you play as an actress playing the role of Hera Wynn on a swamp stage set. Hera's sad duty is to deliver a broken locket to the orphanage. Syde Kikke tosses you a flamingo (for a weapon) and pez (for rations) and bids you good luck.
Three-Card Trick (2016)
You play as Morgan the Magnificent (Morrighan is too hard to pronounce), the prestidigitator who amazed everyone last season with your two-card trick. But this season, a rival is claiming to do a three-card trick and stealing your audience! You will expose the fraud and do a three-card trick yourself or bust.
Threediopolis (2013)
In this wordplay game, you play as a citizen of the multi-level city of Threediopolis in the year 2100. Today, you got lost and found Ed Dunn in a penthouse. He immediately hires you to visit several people and places, but his list is rather cryptic. Still, it includes all the addresses, so how hard can it be?
Threnody (2005)
In this adventure game, you play as a warrior, a mage, or a thief; you choose your adventure class and your gender during the prologue sequence. You have come to the keep of the vanished mage Eselatem to find treasure and to advance your career. But you will also find Threnody, a sentient nine-tailed cat! She and her siblings have been Eselatem's prisoners for 200 years; perhaps it would be worth your while to free them, if you can?
Through the Looking Glass (1995)
In this short one-room tutorial, you play as Alice at the beginning of Through the Looking-Glass. To quote the game: It's a cold winter day outside, but in the looking-glass house it's summer. All you need to do is pretend there's a way of getting through into it somehow...
Tightest (2002)
In this very short one-room story loosely based on Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, you play as the tightest Andronicus. To be blunt, you want to kill and eat your enemies.
The Time Machine (1981, 1983, 1998)
In this Scott-Adams-style game, you play as a newspaper reporter who wants to interview Dr. Potter in his home in the foggy moors. But instead of finding the doctor, you find his time machine and a request to rescue him.
Time Place People Water Way (2004)
In this small game that only uses five nouns, you play as one of three people. People-People Water is upset because Way-Way-Way-Way swallowed that which is most sacred. Way-Time Time thinks some water would help.
The Tiny House (2010)
In this sprawling fantasy game, you play as Christine Doyle, a young teacher. You come home from work to discover your husband and son are missing. If you search your home, you'll find a spellbook, some scrolls, and eventually learn your son was stolen by David Bowie?! Wasn't that just in a movie?
Titanic: Leo's Revenge (1999)
You play as a male survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, except you're currently treading water in the cold Atlantic and that's not exactly safe. What you need, sir, is a miracle.
To Catch A Dragonfly (2011)
In this small game, you play as an electrical engineer, maybe? Anyway, you were getting ready for a big date in a rented tux when your boss orders you to get the new high-powered experimental safety net working so his joyriding boss flying the malfunctioning Dragonfly doesn't crash and go splat.
To Sea in a Sieve (2023)
In this one-room comedy, you play as Peter Petibon, who wert the cabin boy of the pyrate ship, Queen Mab, until it sank. Now you're in a leaky jolly boat with the feckless Captain Booby and his pile of heavy treasure. Booby expects you to bail water for days, but if you truly want to avoid being shark food, you must throw all that treasure overboard.
Toasterama (2000)
In this small game, you play as some guy who wakes up after dreaming about his ex-girlfriend again. Kelly took almost everything with her when she moved out. Shame she didn't also take that damned toaster waiting for you in the kitchen. And it's time for toast.
Toby's Nose (2015)
In this murder mystery, you play as Sherlock Holmes's dog, Toby. The body of Gerald Argente lies dead in the drawing-room, and Sherlock declares to his family and servants that one of them is a murderer. But Sherlock wants you to discover who. Smell everyone and everything. Your talented nose can smell scents within odours and discover clues from everywhere the suspects have visited. When you're sure who the murderer is, bark at them to solve the case.
Toeing the Line (2004)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as a solider in Bush IV's America. A ferret emergency has been declared! You're the best ferret killer around, and with the announced bounty, you're certain to claim the rewards by toeing the line.
ToK (2010)
In this tiny buggy game, you play as someone in the entrance hall of a venue, but because the wallpaper is so bright and golden, all you can currently see is a clumsily-built wooden box.
Tommy The Toaster (2000)
In this minimalistic one-room game set in a kitchen, you play as anyone. On the wooden table are Brad The Bread and Tommy The Toaster. Let's see what you do.
Too Much Exercise (2006)
You play as an overweight man who is somehow in a valley where the nearby cottage is labelled as "BUBBLE 3927". You're hungry and you don't like exercise.
Tookie's Song (2002)
Cat aliens from the planet Purrsimmon have stolen your pet dog, Tookie! Rescue him by solving all the various light-hearted puzzles they've set up for you!
Toonesia (1995)
In this short parody of Warner Bros. cartoons, you play as Elmo Fuld, millionaire. You want to shoot Bud Bunny for dinner, but he's dumped you in this bare cell and hidden your gun somewhere else. Oooh, that rascally rabbit!
Tooth Ow Zunden Too (2001)
In this very short, puzzleless, and nearly-storyless game, you play as someone locked in an old storage room during the year's last minutes. You probably want to escape, whoever you are.
Tooth Ow Zunden Won! (2001)
In this ridiculously surreal and tiny game, you play as someone at the "Screaming Yak" curd diner where you order food by kissing some guy called "Brutus the Chihuahua" multiple times. And with the doors sealed with dried curd, leaving the diner is going to be a little tricky.
A Top Hat For Eddie (1999)
In this minimal game, you play as Mr. Potato Head. Unfortunately, you're on an iceburg and you're missing an ear, eye, and your mouth. Fortunately, the coast of Nova Scotia is just a stone's throw away.
Total Paddling Mania (1998)
In this "interactive punishment jag", you play as Dr. Beltway, the owner and operator of The Paddling Werkshoppe, adjacent to the Baylor School of Punishment. When dealing with unruly children, you believe paddling is where it's at and that time-outs are ineffective foolishness.
Tower (2009)
In this tiny game, you play as an elderly person who is somehow transported to a mist-shrouded garden outside a tower. Explore the tower and find a way home.
Tower (2014)
In this surreal game, you play as someone unsure of who you are or where you are: a tower with a prophecy you must fulfil.
The Tower of Beef (2003)
In this short game against the clock, you play as a beef courier who wants to destroy Mr. McBeefy's Beef Imporium from within before the Beef Flu finally destroys you from within. You don't have much time left. Free the cows!
Toxic Sewage (A (Love) Story) (2002)
In this (short) story that delights in overusing parentheses, you play as someone who came (here) to a sewage treatment plant hoping to find your (lost) love, Josephina. But you were (almost) too late...
Toxin X (2011)
In this very incomplete game, you play as a homeowner in a town where a toxin is turning the people into zombies. A note from Fritz tells you that survivors have set up a camp deep in the forest, but they need food and supplies.
Tragedy strikes at the XYZZY awards! (2001)
In this very short one-room game, you're someone under the stage at the XYZZY awards. Eileen yells down to you that the Best Game trophy is missing. If you can find it, throw it at the trapdoor!
Trapped in a One-Room Dilly (1998)
In this one-room puzzlefest, you want to escape from a room with lots of items but no obvious exits. (This was a novel idea back in 1998!) Features some photographs, a dartboard, a slot machine, a puzzlebox, a closet, a couch, a table and chair, a thieving mouse, and a pink fish.
Trapped in a Small Room (2010)
In this small, simple, semi-surreal escape game, you play as someone in darkness. You're carrying a lemon and a flashlight with a wire sticking out of it. Once you get some light, escape from the small room.
The Travels of Fitzwilliam Pound (2002)
In this small game, you play as the adventurer called Fitzwilliam Pound. Your quest is to travel the globe to rid yourself of a cursed marble.
Trial of the Inuop (2017)
In this short one-room game, you are a homeowner abducted by aliens called the Inuop. They invite you to escape their space vessel before a timer runs out or they'll invade Earth. Examining and taking inventory do not use up turns. The timer shows 11 turns left. Good luck!
Trinity (1986)
You play as an American tourist visiting Kensington Park in London, England, when the city is vaporized by the beginning of World War III. You escape the city's destruction and enter a surreal landscape that appears to be a giant sundial peppered with toadstools. Your task will be to visit the sites of several atomic bombs throughout history and thus determine the fate of both the Earth and yourself.
Triple Bear Beer (2001)
You play as a gay actor in a monkey-man suit, on the set of the latest commercial for Triple Bear Beer. You just want to get this day over with and get back home to your boyfriend Phil.
Triumphant Return of the Evil Sea Grape (2001)
In this tiny silly game, you play as the Evil Sea Grape in mortal combat with your arch-enemy, the Big White Chef. His enchanted hat protects him from your deadly mental force blasts! You are captured! You wake up in an underwater winery. You have been turned into wine.
Trouble in Sector 471 (2022)
In this limited-command game, you play as Exter-17, a bot who exterminates bugs. You are dispatched to Sector 471 to first fix a power outage, then to eliminate all the bugs there. Useful bots will be rewarded!
TRUDGE: An Interactive Hike (1999)
In this ridiculous excuse for a game, you play as someone climbing up the side of a tremendous iceburg. Why you're here is anyone's guess, but you're cold and hungry and seeing things out of the corner of your eyes so you better keep moving.
Truth (2014)
In this somewhat silly game, you play as someone in a self-imposed search for the truth. Explore this small city and expose all the lies! Can you find the truth?
Tryst of Fate (1995, 1996, 1997)
In this sprawling fantasy/western game, you play as a housewife who accidentally knocks herself out after stepping on a toy car in the upstairs hallway. When you wake up, you feel fine, but before you can stand up, a gnome steals your gold watch right off your wrist... and drops a special gumball? What is going on?
Tundra (1998)
In this very short game, you play as a fatigued, homesick young person lost in the middle of a snow storm. Why did your friends abandon you like this? Fortunately, you're wearing warm clothes, but all you can see is snow, and the only thing you're carrying is a corked bottle of brandy.
Turning Point (2004)
The twenty-year war between Valkon IV and Delmoke X is at a crux. In this small game, you are Athtax, bodyguard and aide to the Valkonian Captain Athta, a tactical genius who will lead the final assault against the Delmokians. You are also his clone. Protect the ship. Protect the Captain.
Tuuli (2017)
In this short story, you play as Lenne-who-would-be-the-witch. You wake screaming, knowing that Mákke is dead, knowing that Mákke is no longer the witch, and knowing that black ships approach the village, bringing death. Afraid, you also know what you now must do. You must perform the ritual and summon the storm.
The Twelve Heads of St. John the Baptist (2007)
In this short game, you play as an IF operative. As you know, Speed-IF is fueled by religious artifacts, and you planned to feed the Primary Source with the head of St. John the Baptist. But then Quebecois heretics stole the head! You've easily stolen it back, of course, but, uh, with eleven other heads they had. Now which of these twelve heads will provide the latest Speed-IF with the inspiration it needs?
Twilight of the Dogs (2004)
In this short game, you play as a human warrior in the middle of a bloody war with the Dogs. Your regiment has recently won a battle. Now it's time to make an attack on the Dogs' last fortress.
Ugly Chapter (2003)
In this short story, you play as Leti, a rich woman and a patron of the arts, who travels from Hawaii to Mars, as told by an angry and bitter male poet who knew her. What you did in the most ugly chapter of your life cannot be changed, but it can now be relived yet again by everyone thanks to this seventeenth edition.
Ultimate Escape Room: IF City (2017)
You play as someone who is playing a real life "escape the room" game. This one is called "The Wizard's Rainbow". You start in a white room containing a white chair and no obvious exits.
Uncle Clem's Will (2020)
Your Uncle Clem disappeared seven years ago and is now declared dead. You have inherited his house, its contents, and acres of land. The attorney tells you that Clem studied geology, then he gives you a master key and wishes you luck before he leaves. Unfortunately, your luck must be bad because the key soon falls into a furnace grate.
Under Cover of Darkness (2000)
Someone has kidnapped Muffy and left an anonymous letter, saying she's being held at the bottom of these stairs. You don't know who did this or why, but you're going to rescue her.
Under, In Erebus (2010)
In this game of wordplay, you play as someone forced to take a one-way elevated train trip to Erebus, a land of darkness deep underground. Stranded, you will need to use the homophones you find there to spell the tools you need to escape.
Under the Bed (2012)
In this small game, you play as a young kid who's been afraid of the monster under your bed for seven years. But now your baby brother Danny and his crib have been moved into your room, and he's now the monster's new target. Tonight, you plan to kill the monster.
Under the Sea: The Treasure of the Santa Tortosa (2019)
In this small underwater adventure, you play as Professor Oliver von Bremen, adventurer, noble, and bon vivant. At London's Adventurers' Society, you heard about the sunken galleon Santa Tortosa, its treasure, and the tiny Caribbean island that has a map that leads to it. Now's the time to find out if those rumours were true.
Underground (2019)
In this lighthearted cave exploration game, you play as someone who was sleeping in their bed at home and woke up in a cave and carrying a rucksack. And there's a lantern nearby. You've had dreams about a cave like this. You should go explore it.
Undo (1995)
In this tiny surreal game, you play as an adventurer at the end of a long quest. To reach your final goal, you just need to get past this large hole, a frog, and a small duck.
The Unfortunate Training of Frank Lee, Monkey Butler to Be (2001)
In this miniscule game, you play as Frank Lee, someone who wants to be a monkey butler. Just one more bit of reading from your mail-order course and then you can try using your new skills in public!
The Unicorn Pool (2010)
In this story, you play as a female villager named Marty. At the end of a long market day, you see your neighbour, Giles, who you've had your eye on, led away by the squire's daughter, Grace. The next morning, you discover that your billy goat has escaped its paddock and that Giles never returned home. You better find out what happened to both of them.
Unity! (1998)
In this game strongly-inspired by Infocom's Trinity, you play as someone who—thanks to an oddly-helpful chicken—travels to other places and times to prevent disasters in the fast-food cold war between a major hamburger franchise and its competition in the fried chicken business.
Unnkulia Zero: The Search for Amanda (1993, 1996)
You play as a hulking Valley Warrior. You have been ordered by His Magnimosity, the Valley King, to find and rescue Lady Amanda, the King's betrothed, who has vanished. If the Unnkulians have stolen her, then today you may be killing Unnkulians as well!
Unscientific Fiction (2008–2009)
In this silly space opera, you play as an Earthling kidnapped by aliens. Your intelligence impresses them so much that you are promoted to be an advisor, but your first piece of advice kills them all. So the ship's computer puts your brains into a robot body so you can fulfill the Prime Commander's last wish: to push the big red button that will destroy the universe! Geepers.
The Unstoppable Vengeance of Doctor Bonesaw (2016)
In this tiny game, you play as Doctor Sargon Bonesaw. After months of research, you now know who are responsible for your humiliation. Their portraits hang on your wall of enemies. And tonight, they will die! You and your assistant César have planned your overwhelming vengeance, both horrifying and surreal, to the last detail! There is no way such a perfect plan could ever be thwarted.
(untitled: onion2.gam) (1999)
In this odd tiny game, you play as an onion driving your Ford Nostradamus on a hot day in August. You want to deliver a chocolate Eiffel Tower to your friend, but the chocolate is melting in this heat!
(untitled: speed.gam) (1999)
In this tiny game, you play as a soldier in Paris in September 1944 just after the city was liberated from Nazi Germany. You have an important appointment to keep: a clandestine meeting at the Eiffel Tower with a former lover.
Untold Riches (2015)
You play as a teenage assistant to Professor Edsger d'Squarius, adventurer-archaeologist. You've assisted him in recovering several treasures in the past, often saving him from the situations he gets himself into. But now you are the one stranded on a remote tropical island and you don't even know what treasure you're looking for.
The Untold Story (2019)
In this odd fantasy game, you play as young man who lives alone in a forest cabin. Your beloved brother, who saw himself as a Warrior, died nearly a year ago. You define yourself by your Faith in your Lord. Today, you discover five of your chess pieces are missing. And who was that outside your window? It can't be him!
Unyielding Fury (2006)
In this short introduction to a horror game, you play as a 13-year-old boy dreaming of running in the dark forest. You feel you belong there. You find a glowing stone, and soon afterwards, a huge werewolf.
Upwards and Onwards (2003)
You play as a human employee in Divine Investigations and the fallen angel Yechaedriel has a job for you. He was cursed by God after he lost a bet with the demon Shadiel, so now he's hoping you can go up to Heaven and find a way to get him a pardon.
Uxmulbrufyuz (2017)
In this small wordplay game, your nightmares have taken you to Uxmulbrufyuz where everything starts with U and U is the only vowel (not counting Y). Ugh. Do U have it within U to upset undue ugliness? Evict every extreme? Improve inferior instincts? And alter angsty attitudes?
Vacationing in Scotland (2003)
In this very short game, you play as a tourist visiting McCain castle in Scotland. You somehow got separated from your tour group who are probably waiting for you in the foyer. You just need to find your way back there.
The Valley House (2011)
In this puzzleless and genderless story, you play as Mel, a retired person puttering around their house on the one-year anniversary of Sam's, their spouse's, death. For each portion of the day, you'll have a handful of turns to do whatever you want before time moves inexorably forward.
The Vambrace of Destiny (2023)
In this one-keystroke-per-command fantasy game, you play as Mr Bartholloco, an apprentice watchmaker. The Society of Wizardry hired you to recover the Staff of Many Powers, stolen by a wizard now hiding inside the Halls of Morok. To aid you, you have the vambrace of Morok's daughter Destiny. Every gem you find for the vambrace adds a new spell you can use. Solve puzzles, defeat monsters, and earn treasure!
Vampire Gold (2023)
In this small generic RPG, you play as an adventurer in search of treasure. Defeat monsters, improve your armor and weapons, then kill the vampire to win the game.
Vault of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo (2011)
You play as a roguish space pirate in the future! Today, you're going to plunder a long lost museum devoted to interactive fiction.
A Very Hairy Fish-Mess (2009)
In this absurd horror-comedy, you were making a cheese sammich when Cthulhu summons you to her throne room deep below your home. She tells you that Fishmas, the Time of Giving, is nigh. She orders you to give Cthulhu the largest, stinkiest fish in Cthulhu's Great Realm. Now begone! Fetch it, Human! There shall be much Fishmas Cheer!
The Very Old Witch and the Turnip Girl (2017)
In this short story, a very old witch is restless. Her old hobbies of blighting and smiting no longer give her any satisfaction. So the witch creates a child: a doll with a turnip head that she brings to life. Unfortunately, the witch still feels empty inside.
The vicar of Dribble (2012)
You play as a young male teenager. Find out who murdered your father.
Vindaloo (1996)
You play as someone who wakes up with the desire to make their famous vindaloo curry today. You just need to find the ingredients first.
The Virtual Grand National (2020)
In this very short game, you play as a jockey outside the entrance of Aintree Racecourse with your horse. Unfortunately, this year's Grand National was cancelled because of the lockdown, so now you're just going to ride your horse back home.
Visit Skuga Lake - Masterpiece Edition (2023)
In this spooky magical game, you begin as Ryan interviewing author Leah Naidu about her story Visit Skuga Lake. Within her story, you play as Charybdis Argile, an intern for a travel magazine, locked in a closet by a suspicious motel manager. Use totemic magic to escape the closet, find your missing boss, and fix what's wrong with this town.
Visualizing (1999, 2000)
In this game similar to a Landscape entry in the IF Art Show, you play as someone determined to improve your visualization skills. With the help of slow hypnotic music, you eventually relax and find yourself by a creek where you used to play as a child. But the landscape seems hazy.
The Voodoo You Do 2 (2014)
In this very short story, you play as a "child of death"; that is, a zombie. Baron Samedi has just opened your casket. He wants to send you to the Underworld and says there's nothing you can do about it.
Vortex 2305 (2010)
In this very short game, you play as an attendee at PAX East wearing a Wizard of Frobozz costume. You're hoping to see the panel on Storytelling in Interactive Fiction, but the line to get in is so long!
The WadeWars Book II: Niksa (2000)
In this buggy fantasy demo, you play as Noric Gooddeed, a Viking. Your constant companion is E. Pinke Kim, an annoying lip-reading minstrel who sings about your every action. Crackling energy splits the air, and you see a strange man step out (then back into) the glowing doorway. Kim sings, "Odin has summoned you! Now enter the door!"
The WadeWars Book III: Askin (1993, 2000, 2001, 2002)
In this fantasy adventure, you play as someone looking for their uncle Seamore. Seamore is an oddball scientific genius who invented a transdimensional teleportation device, and now he's trapped in a parallel universe. Rescue him and discover your destiny!
Waiting for The End (2013)
In this short story, it is the time of The End. Magic has died, heroes are no more, and the Fates have failed. You, a mortal, can only walk life's path to The End and wait.
Wake Up (2018)
In this short horror game, you wake in your bed, but the light and your bedroom itself seem faded. The bed seems hardly there. You feel your big toe resting against the plaster of the wall, but you can't move to see it. And then: You sense a small pressure on your chest.
A Walk in the Park (2017)
In this somewhat-aimless game, you play as a young man initially riding a city bus with hours-fresh memories of the police raiding the jamboree at the house you and others were squatting in. Then the bus hits a horse and you find yourself stranded at a city park, without the scratch to call a cab.
The Wand (2017)
You play as someone who has come to the wizard Bartholloco's castle to win a prize. Using only a magic wand that can be set to a thousand different color combinations, can you master the wand's powers and discover the castle's many secrets when you can't even touch anything else? And what's the biggest prize you can win?
Waystation (1995)
In this old-school puzzle game, you wake up in a cell after a blinding blue light from the sky engulfs you. If you can escape your prison, you may discover waystations that can teleport you to other planets. But everywhere you go is plaqued with death, destruction, and decay. Is nowhere safe and good? Is there any way you can escape or fix any of this?
The Wayward Story (2020)
In this fractured story very reminiscent of Photopia, told from multiple viewpoints out of a chronological order and incorporating color-coded fantasy sequences, your choices will determine the fate of a young man named Ben, years after the death of his parents in a tragic car crash.
The Weapon (2001)
In this one-room game, you are Tolan, the galaxy's best Mechanist, brought in handcuffs to the control room of the Yi-Lono-Mordel, which is believed to be the Yi's final weapon against the Lono. Dig Leader Cheryl Thadafel doesn't trust you at all, but she needs your help. You are to bring up some Yi text, then stop immediately. Her hologram device is scanning the room constantly, so outwitting her will be tricky.
Wearing the Claw (1996, 1997)
In this fantasy game, you play as a peasant youth with a wolf's paw for a left hand. The wizard Marnian cursed everyone in your province with animal limbs, but Lord Midel believes you can break the curse by fetching the Pendant of Elinor from the mysterious isle of the Goergs and returning the pendant to him.
Weary Eerie Way (2021)
In this acky-way-wacky wordplay game, you are dreaming. You just crashed your blimp in Blimp Limp Bay, but fortunately, local weirdo Ump-Gray-Grump will fix it for you. Ah-Yay Yah! But he needs you to find a part to fix it with. Rat-Day Drat!
Weaving a Basket (or Something) (2001)
You play as someone who's always dreamed of being one of society's elite. You've got the money, the house, and the rich friends, but now you need a life skill. You decide to learn basket weaving. That can't be too hard, can it?
Wedding Day (2014)
In this short story, it's your wedding day. You are not young for a bride. Once dressed, you try to enjoy the celebration in the village square. But as the crowd dances and the Village Elder stands apart, watching, you wonder if you can truly go through with it. Are you ready?
Weird City Interloper (2014)
In this game driven exclusively by topics of conversation, you play as a hooded stranger visiting the city of Zendon. Orz, the city gate barnacle, wants to know if you're here for [trade] or [worship].
The Weird Sister (2002)
In this short story, you play as one of the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Your task is to collect the ingredients for a magical charm and put them into your cauldron.
What Dreams May Come (2003)
In this tiny game, you begin as a gopher in a busy maze of cubicles. Co-workers keep giving you envelopes to deliver, but you can never reach your destinations in time. And why is a jester following you around, singing and dancing?
What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (2021)
In this game, you waken in a shadowy place, without memories, feelings, or a physical body. You can't touch anything. But as you examine things, you gain emotions that can affect things. Your FEAR shatters glass. Your EXCITEment opens doors. Explore this house and learn who you are.
Content warning: violence and child abuse.
When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Firetruck (1999)
You're here at the Pleasure Pier to ride your favourite roller coaster of all time with your reporter friend, Chris, but Chris didn't show up! That's a real problem because they won't let you ride the coaster alone!
Where There's A Will (2005)
In this game loosely based on Sierra's Mystery House, you play as Norman, a potential heir to your late Uncle Oscar's estate. You have one day to find a diamond necklace hidden in his "Mystery House" to qualify. However, all seven of Uncle Oscar's other nephews, nieces, and cousins are all practically tripping over each other to help you search for it even though it's not their turn! So helpful!
White Houses (2014)
In this horror story inspired by Zork I, you play as someone named Vanessa. Your friend Jenny asked to meet you at this white house out here in the middle of nowhere, deep in the forest. She said she had something important to tell you, so you came, but you hope you don't regret it.
Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft (2014)
You play as Page LeBlanc, a teenage witch who arrives a day late for classes and finds the school in more disarray than usual—everyone is missing or enchanted—and it's up to you to put everything right. And you get to eat a lot of gingerbread.
Who Iced Mayor McFreeze? (2023)
In this small mystery game, you play as Bubble Gumshoe, a private detective in Sugar City. Mrs. McFreeze, the mayor's wife, wants you to find her missing husband who may have run into difficulties at the old taffy factory. But when you find him dead inside, you must answer the question... Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?
Who Shot Gum E. Bear? (2022)
In this mystery game, you play as Bubble Gumshoe. You and Officer Donut are in an alley. At your feet is the lifeless body of Gum E. Bear, lying in a puddle of his own liquid centre. Investigate this crime and ACCUSE the culprit.
Whoah Cubs Woe (2018)
In this small puzzle game, you play as a Cubs fan who wants to help them win the World Series. Wandering near Wrigleyville, you somehow find yourself in a large room with a pentagram. A minor imp says you can help the Cubs win by placing ten baseball artifacts at the correct vertices, and all it'll cost you is the reversal of a minor decision you made earlier.
Why does my New Year's Eve always crash and burn? (2001)
You play as Diane, a working woman who's had terrible luck at previous New Year's Eves. Tonight is your fourth date with Roy, the sweetest and cutest guy you've ever dated, and a midnight kiss with him would make for a perfect evening. But things just aren't working out that way.
Will Not Let Me Go (2017)
In this harrowing story, you play as Fred Strickland, a man suffering from memory lapses that continue to get worse over time. Chapters in Fred's life are presented out of chronological order, so the reader can share in Fred's confusion, anger, and sense of helplessness.
Will The Real Marjorie Hopkirk Please Stand Up? (1998)
In this demo game, you play as an assassin hired to kill Mrs. Marjorie Hopkirk. Unfortunately, she's cloned herself ninety-nine times which means you're going to have to kill her one hundred times to get the job done. (Note: This demo game ends after five assassinations.)
Winchester's Nightmare (1999–2002)
In this historical yet surreal game, you play as Sarah Winchester, seeking redemption in her dreams for all the deaths caused by Winchester rifles. Sarah wanders in a vast psychic landscape called the United City, a distilled America. Sarah mutely witnesses much, both banal and horrible. But Sarah cannot wake from this self-made purgatory until she symbolically destroys one rifle completely, piece by piece. And she cannot do it alone.
Winter Wonderland (1999)
In this seasonal game, it's solstice evening. You play as Gretchen Bales, a young girl. Your younger brother is ill and your family poor, but you're determined to find something for Sander from the village. But after a sudden snowstorm, you find yourself lost in a magical winter wonderland where you'll meet a dryad, fairies, snow sprites, and more!
Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist (2016)
You play as a Wisher, someone with the power of Harmony. You can transfer virtue between objects and your words can inspire and persuade the reluctant. You wish to quest for the Jewel of All Desiring and command that sleeping god into shaping how the World should be. But you dare not begin your journey without the blessing of the Queen of Raif.
The Wishing Wood (2017)
In this incomplete surreal story, you play as someone who is fireflies (maybe). And you're also a mouse (perhaps). But that's confusing, no-ya?, so you're usually a person. So you take a plane to Death's Country, and an old woman named Claudia drives you to the house where Death lives. It's been a long time since your last visit. And why did you come?
Wisp (2013)
In this very small adventure, you're on a road late at night, trying to get home to bed, when you see a light ahead. You soon find yourself in a confusing marsh, hazy with mist.
The Witch (2023)
In this fantasy game, you play as an elf who, after a night of drinking mead, wakes up nestled up high in an oak tree. But your headache is soon forgotten when you find your village deserted. An evil witch captured almost everyone, intending to eat them, and she's sure to come back by nightfall. Can you save yourself and the others before then?
The Witch's Apprentice (2019)
In this game, you play as Susan, a 14 year-old apprentice witch, assigned to Broomhilda, a much older witch. When you first meet in her basement, she orders you to find eight ingredients for her cauldron. She's brewing a spell that will keep children safe from restless spirits this Halloween.
Withdrawal Symptoms (2000)
In this small game, you play as someone who inherited the key to your late aunt's safety deposit box. Although the bank building is rather large and imposing, you're finally here now, and surely it will be a simple matter to find out what the box contains.
Within a Wreath of Dewdrops or, A Poisoned Zenith (2005)
In this small game, you are the only actor onstage in Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, a historical opus which has entered its final act. Using just four pathetic props, can you act as the hero, the heroine, and the evil wizard, and save a burning Paris from the Spaniards?
A Wizard Goes Shopping (2010)
You play as a wizard, doing some food-shopping for your partner. You need a lobster, a mango, and a box of fettuccine. You doesn't expect to need any magic, but you have your spell book just in case.
The Wizard's Apprentice (2013)
As Gwydion's apprentice, you have learned four spells: rust, freeze, metal detection, and invisibility. He's now decided to test you. Your tasks are to escape the dungeon, get paprika from a witch, make soup, and find his metal rod.
Wizard's Magic (2019)
In this very tiny game, you are a newly-graduated wizard who has lost or misplaced his wand. Find it!
The Wolf and the Seven Kids (2012)
In this short sparsely-implemented adaptation of the fairy tale, you play as the wolf. Your goal is to get into the house and eat all seven kids.
WOODEN CAT vs. ROBOT MONKEY (2001)
In this tiny game, you play as a private detective and inventor. You've sent your robot monkey out on a mission and it's returned chasing a sorry-looking wooden cat down a railway line to your office and workshop.
worm (2000)
A gentle rhyme. Poetic verse. A pleasant time? Or something worse?
Wormwood Days II: The Aftermath (2003)
In this short surreal game, wormwood has contaminated the world's water supply. Death and disarray are everywhere as agents, both good and bad, travel throughout time to promote their faction's survival. Even normal geography no longer makes sense. You are Legba, agent L. Your new mission is to recover the preserved head of Michael J. Roberts from the Nazis.
The X Chicken (1998)
In this parody of The X Files, you play as Agent Monk. With your fellow agents Mildew and Scaly, you are investigating an incident in the midwest where a chicken has crossed a road to get to the other side.
Xmaton (2007)
In this short one-room game inspired by Eyezmaze's GROW games, you play as a homeowner with a new X-Maton machine. It has six buttons to help you prepare your house for Christmas, but what order should you press them in before your family returns home?
The Xylophoniad (2016)
You play as the adventuress Xylophone. King Eurystheus of Anachronopolis commands you to complete three great labours: one, slay the Bicyclops; two, recover two souls from Hades; and three, end the Trojan War and rescue Helen of Troy.
YAGWAD (2000)
In this game, you play as a brawny adventurer heroically rescuing a fair maiden from a fire-breathing dragon. Oops, sorry, no, that was just a dream. You're actually an out-of-shape drunken lout. But then King Alfie proclaims that Princess Rosebud has been abducted by a dastardly dragon and that whoever rescues her will gain half the kingdom and her hand in marriage! Wow. Will you make the attempt to win the princess? Or will you go have another pint in the tavern? It's a tough choice.
Yak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles! (2008)
In this small silly game, you play as Steve Goodwin, a junior marketing executive who wants to learn the meaning of life itself! That's why you've journeyed to the mystical valley of Shangri-La to find the legendary guru known as the Dada Lama! If anyone can teach you the secrets of the universe, it would be he.
Yay Games (2004)
In this tiny game set at the 2003 XYZZY Awards, you play as an audience member. Show your appreciation for the award-winning games, but do it differently each time! (Note that this game includes text from the actual ceremony!)
The Yellow Stone (1999)
In this tiny game, you play as someone outside a dark, forboding bar. If you dare to enter, you may find a golden bottle of beer inside.
Yesternight (2021)
In this very small and very primitive game, you play as someone with a gold coin and no obvious goals entering a small town. To win the game, get past the bear guarding the forest entrance north of the town.
You Are A Chef! (2000)
HELLO CHEF!!!!!1 You must make FOOD! You have a list! First to food wins!
You are a Turkey! (2011)
In this tiny minimalist joke game, you play as a turkey on a turkey farm. There's a feeling of dread in the air, but turkeys don't understand English.
You Are Here (2001)
In this game based on a theatre play, you play as a guest adventurer in a virtual world called a Multi-User Dungeon, or MUD for short. After readying yourself with some clothing and a weapon, join a quest and complete it to become a full certified adventurer.
You Have to Put the Baby New Year in the Champagne Bottle (2014)
In this ultra-short one-room joke game that claims to be latest in SoftSoft's "You Have to Put the Noun in the Other Noun" series, you find yourself in a party room with the Baby New Year and a champagne bottle nearby. Based on the title, can you solve this puzzle? There's also a New Years Fun Fact every turn!
(You're) TOAST! (2000)
In this game, you play as someone who had the new Toast-O-Matic ThreeThousand installed while you weren't home, and you return to find a gigantic toaster and parts of your home transformed! This is ridiculous. How are you supposed to make toast now?
You've Got A Stew Going! (2011)
You play as a rat. Your lazy friend Drew invited you over to his burrow for a stew, and you're both hungry, but all he's got is weak broth in a stewpot. You'll have to look around and find some ingredients if you want a stew going.
Your mind is gone, it must be brought, you have some rock candy (1999)
In this tiny surreal game, you play as a monkey. Or, at least, you look like one. You begin in the Start Room with a yellow rock candy corn.
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it (2011)
In this tiny minimalistic work that satisfies the premise of the speed-if in which it was entered, you play as someone in a walled quadrangle surrounded by all items in the premise. An exit leads east.
Ze French countryside is full of fresh air (2007)
In this small game, you play as a civilized spy. Your mission was to retrieve the spirit of the SpeedIF, stolen by dastardly Francophones and hidden in the Kingdom of Carapagne. But you were betrayed and captured and may spend the rest of your life in the prison of Saint Margueleine unless you can escape.
Zeppelin Adventure (2018)
You were piloting a one-person tea-zeppelin to Olympus City on Mars, when a flock of pterodactyls unexpectedly attack and you're forced into an orange swirly thing in the sky! BOOM! You're now in some other planet's sky, your engine is ruptured, and your ship is plummeting! If you survive the fall, it looks like you're going to have an adventure whether you want one or not.
Zero Sum Game (1997, 1998)
You play as either Duff Malcolm Mint or Charlotte Candy Mint who returns home with 75 points and a bag full of treasure. Unfortunately, your mother is very displeased and demands that you return all those treasures to their owners and not to return home until those 75 points are gone.
Zig-zy (2001)
In this small one-room game, you play as a woman named Amy attending the XYZZY awards ceremony in VR space. Your friend Mark thinks that Earth Company is going to kill Stephen Bishop during the ceremony because of his FTL research. You plan to prevent that murder.
Zombies! (2004)
In this small horror game, you're an assistant janitor at the complex. Before Old Mac died last week, he warned you about the zombie research they were doing here and he must've been right because your boss just screamed "they're loose!" and pulled you into his office, locking the door. Then he collapsed, bleeding from serious bite wounds.
Zozzled (2019)
In this game set in Seattle's Grand Poseidon Hotel during the prohibition era, you play as Hazel Greene, one swanky sheba. You were making bedroom eyes at this hot-shot artist fella when the prohis raided the Lounge. Worse, all the giggle water is now actual water, everyone's disgustingly sober, and no one knows why. Now you really need a drink.
Zumpf and Fumping (2001)
In this small surreal game, you play as someone who was banished from Evil Fishville because you had a bag of peyote Skittles (don't ask). Then you attempted to make up for it with a quest to defeat the mythical creature of doom known as the Zumpf. Well, you found the Zumpf then immediately fled, but it seems a Mysterious Benefactor is going to help you defeat it after all.
Zymurgy (2002)
As a mortal representive of the Bavarian Purity Laws, it is your solemn and ecstatic duty to consume all forms of sugar and convert it to ethanol. This pleases the Brewer. Or so the holy scriptures say, and they are not to be doubted.
